Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest. b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company. c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement. d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement. e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager. f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering. g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability. h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA. i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering. j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (BGO Industrial Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (BGO Industrial Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (BGO Industrial Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $2,975,000,000 in Shares (or such other amount as the Company allocates to the public up to the maximum amount primary Offering of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectusfirst paragraph of this Agreement) primarily through the dealers selected to participate in the distribution of Shares in the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes who have executed Selected Dealer Agreements with the Dealer Manager (each, a “Dealer” and, collectively, the “Dealers”), all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)SEC rules, and the rules USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably designed to detect and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to cause the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141Company.
3.2. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public only in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement3.3. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold and 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold, plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public; provided, however, that there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Shares under the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a monthly distribution and stockholder servicing fee with respect that will accrue daily in an amount equal to sales 1/365th of 0.8% of the Company’s per share NAV of Class S T Shares sold, excluding Class T Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the distribution and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who Shares sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer Offering at the earliest of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, on behalf of the Company, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager commissions and distribution and stockholder servicing fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect by a stockholder within his or her individual account would be equal to 7.0% of the stockholder’s total gross investment amount at the time of the purchase of the primary Class T shares held within in such account would exceed, in account; (ii) the aggregate, 8.75date on which the aggregate underwriting compensation from all sources equals 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of Shares, excluding Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan; (iii) the fifth anniversary of the last day of the month in which the Offering (excluding the offering of shares pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan offering) terminates; (iv) the date such primary Class T share is no longer outstanding; and (v) the date the Company effects a liquidity event. The distribution and stockholder servicing fee relates to the share or shares (including sold. Payments to the gross proceeds Dealer Manager shall be made by the end of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto)week following the week in which Shares are sold by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by the Dealer Manager. Notwithstanding the foregoing, orthe Dealer Manager will reallow all of the selling commissions to Dealers. The Dealer Manager also may reallow all or a portion of the dealer manager fee and the distribution and stockholder servicing fee to Dealers; provided, solely however, that with respect to Class T sharesany individual investment, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager will not re-allow the related distribution and stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer if such Dealer ceases to hold the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which account related to such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareinvestment. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving not reallow the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares distribution and Class D shares in connection stockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer has not executed a Participating Dealer Agreement with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager or if the Dealer’s previously executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager is terminated. In any instance in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementwhich the Dealer Manager does not re-allow the distribution and stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect Dealer Manager will return such fee to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by . If, for any reason, a sale is cancelled or rescinded, the Dealer Manager shall return to the Company during the term of a particular Offeringselling commission, the dealer manager fee and not issued pursuant the distribution and stockholder servicing fee paid to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation it with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablesale. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for to make payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus3.4. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Shares, only the Prospectus and provide to the Company a detailed such sales literature and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany.
j. 3.5. The Dealer Manager Parties represents acknowledges that the Company may reimburse its advisor for underwriting expenses not covered by the selling commissions, dealer manager fee and warrants distribution and stockholder servicing fee set forth in Section 3.3, but only to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement extent that the information under total of such reimbursements for underwriting expenses and the caption “Plan selling commissions, dealer manager fee and distribution and stockholder servicing fee set forth in Section 3.3 is no more than 10.0% of Distribution” the gross offering proceeds of the Shares sold in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to Offering, excluding proceeds from the Company by distribution reinvestment plan. In no event will total underwriting compensation exceed 10.0% of the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the Registration StatementOffering, any preliminary prospectus, excluding proceeds from the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingdistribution reinvestment plan.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust V, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Office & Industrial REIT (CCIT II), Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust V, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Operating Partnership (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1 Subject to the terms described in Section 15 below, the Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Primary Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this AgreementAgreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the Money Laundering Abatement Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby covenants to remain in compliance with such requirements and shall, upon request by the Company, provide a certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program is consistent with the AML Rules, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the Money Laundering Abatement Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules Rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingFINRA, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 21112420, 23102730, 5110 2740, and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date its and each Participating Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such OfferingOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager Parties agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Offering Participants shall commence the offering resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Offering for cash to the public Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares are registered has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or qualified sold for sale or the account of the Company in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other states. The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and the Participating Dealers will each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject 4.4 In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) a dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.5% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Primary Shares (the “Dealer Manager Fee”), a portion of which may be reallowed to Participating Dealers (as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with such Participating Dealer), which reallowance, if any, shall be determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the number of shares sold by such Participating Dealer, the assistance of such Participating Dealer in marketing the Offering and due diligence expenses incurred, and the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to participating broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Offering Period; provided, however, that no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Shares by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Advisor or their respective affiliates; and
(b) subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S 6.5% of the gross proceeds of the Primary Shares and Class D Primary Sharessold, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling which commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager in whole or in part to the Dealers Participating Dealer who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Offered Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceDealer; provided, however, that upon no commissions described in this clause (b) shall be payable in respect of the date when purchase of Shares: (i) through an investment advisory representative affiliated with a Participating Dealer who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the investor; (ii) by a Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of such Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), or (iii) by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Advisor or their respective affiliates. The Company will not pay to the Dealer Manager is notified that any Dealer Manager Fee or selling commissions in respect of the purchase of any DRIP Shares.
4.5 Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amounts whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer who sold Manager under Section 4.4 unless or until $2,000,000 has been raised from the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion sale of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Primary Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated Offering (the “Servicing DealerMinimum Offering”). Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, investments will be held in escrow. If the Minimum Offering is not obtained within the time periods specified in the Prospectus, investments will be returned to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer ManagerProspectus.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. 4.6 The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer for direct payment of commissions, commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Participating Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Company Escrow Agent, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf reallowance of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Participating Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered substantially concurrently with the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as defined under stockholders by the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany.
j. 4.7 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 4.8 The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Company, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said Escrow Agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as Escrow Agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Moody National REIT I, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Moody National REIT I, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Moody National REIT I, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Primary Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocationreallocation of Primary Shares to DRIP Shares, and vice versa, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers Dealers, all of whom shall be members of FINRA in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundergood standing. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell sell, and cause the Dealers to sell, the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each the Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented amended from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D any applicable class of Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may will be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D applicable class of Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T any applicable class of Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may will be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T applicable class of Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented amended from time to time, and subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f4.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all any applicable class of Shares as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may will reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any the Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer Dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Selected Dealer Agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, Shares shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it Dealer is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares such Shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, such Shares for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, applicable Shares if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the any applicable Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the applicable Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For In addition to the avoidance of doubtforegoing, (i) the Company shall pay the Dealer Manager may waive Servicing Fees earned on Shares sold in connection with the Servicing Fee Company’s initial public offering pursuant to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to Company’s registration statement on Form S-11 (File No. 333-223022) (the Shares “Initial Public Offering”) and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager shall reallow such Servicing Fees to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by any Dealers with a Selected Dealer Agreement and any Servicing Dealers with a Servicing Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee Fees with respect to any Class T shareShare, Class S share Share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and Share held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares Shares held by such stockholder within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% (or a lower limit as set forth in the Selected Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer) of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares Shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares Shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share Shares (and any shares Shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares Shares (including any fractional sharesShares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareShares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares with respect to any Shares issued in connection with an the Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I sharesShares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity in which the Company is not the surviving entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets assets, in each case in a transaction in which the Company’s stockholders receive cash and/or cash, securities listed on a national stock exchange or a combination thereof, or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) % of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares any applicable class of Shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, particular Offering shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 34, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership or Brookfield REIT Adviser LLC (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject Subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant Dealer as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. .
j. The Dealer Manager shall pay its own costs and expenses incident to the performance of this Agreement.
k. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), ) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. l. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined Share described in accordance with the Prospectus.
m. The Dealer Manager shall (a) abide by and comply with (i) the privacy standards and requirements of the Xxxxx-Xxxxx-Xxxxxx Act of 1999 (the “GLB Act”), (ii) the privacy standards and requirements of any other applicable federal or state law, and (iii) its own internal privacy policies and procedures, each as may be amended from time to time; (b) refrain from the use or disclosure of nonpublic personal information (as defined under the GLB Act) of all customers who have opted out of such disclosures except as necessary to service the customers or as otherwise necessary or required by applicable law; and (c) determine which customers have opted out of the disclosure of nonpublic personal information by periodically reviewing and, if necessary, retrieving an aggregated list of such customers from the Soliciting Dealers (the “List”) to identify customers that have exercised their opt-out rights. Prior to using or disclosing nonpublic personal information of any customer for purposes other than servicing the customer, or as otherwise required by applicable law, each party will consult the List to determine whether the affected customer has exercised his or her opt-out rights. Each party understands that it is prohibited from using or disclosing any nonpublic personal information of any customer that is identified on the List as having opted out of such disclosures.
n. The Dealer Manager shall remain in compliance with all AML Rules and shall, upon request by the Company, provide a certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification, the Dealer Manager is in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act.
o. The Dealer Manger will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Dealer Manager, its subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Sanctions and Anti-Corruption Laws. The Dealer Manager will not act in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions or Anti-Corruption Laws by any party to this Agreement. The Dealer Manager will deliver in a timely manner all documents reasonably requested by the Company in connection with Sanctions.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Brookfield Real Estate Income Trust Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Oaktree Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.), Adviser Transition Agreement (Oaktree Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Company and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Selected Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the Dealer Manager’s participation in USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the distribution “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the Shares International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the Offering, including with respect to its engagement offering and sale of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersthe Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of foreign Assets Control regulations and programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 21112420, 23102740, 5110 and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee requirements with respect to sales of Class S its and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described each Selected Dealer’s participation in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all any resales or a portion transfers of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur resale or transfer of the following: (i) a listing Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Class I shares, (ii) Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the merger or consolidation account of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusstates. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Offered Shares only the Prospectus and provide the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments prospective investors if accompanied or reimbursements made preceded by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesProspectus, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.Section 1.1
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Keating Capital Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment CORP), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment CORP)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $3,500,000,000 in any combination of Class D Shares, Class T Shares, Class S Shares and Class I Shares (or such other amount as the Company allocates to the public up to the maximum amount primary Offering of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily second paragraph of this Agreement), through financial intermediaries including dealers selected to participate in the distribution of Shares in the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes who have executed Selected Dealer Agreements with the Dealer Manager (each, a “Dealer” and, collectively, the “Dealers”), all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)SEC rules, and the rules USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably designed to detect and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to cause the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public only in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. 3.3 Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager upfront selling commissions in connection the amount of (i) with sales of respect to the Class T Primary Shares, up to 3.00% of the transaction price per Class T Share sold in the primary offering and (ii) with respect to the Class S Primary Shares and Shares, up to 3.50% of transaction price per Class S Share sold in the primary offering; provided, however, that there shall be no selling commission on Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 Shares or Class I Shares or on Shares sold pursuant to this Agreementthe Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. Selling commissions may be waived at the direction of the Dealer Manager. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion may reallow up to 100% of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer AgreementDealers.
d. Subject to volume discounts 3.4 For sales on and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectusafter November 27, which may be amended and restated from time to time2018, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager an upfront dealer manager fees fee in connection with sales an amount equal to 0.50% of the transaction price per Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this AgreementShare. The applicable sum of the upfront selling commission and the upfront dealer manager fees payable fee with respect to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion will not exceed 3.5% of the transaction price. At the Dealer Manager’s discretion, it may reallow up to 100% of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold fee received on the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such DealerDealers. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowAdditionally, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and that is payable in arrears on a monthly basis in an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee amount equal to (ai) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class TD Shares, 0.25% per annum of the aggregate NAV of outstanding Class D Shares, (ii) with respect to the Class T Shares, 0.85% per annum of the aggregate NAV of outstanding Class T Shares, consisting of an advisor stockholder servicing fee of 0.65% per annum, and a stockholder servicing fee of 0.20% per annum, of the aggregate NAV of outstanding Class T Shares and (iii) with respect to the Class S Shares, 0.85% per annum of the aggregate NAV of outstanding Class S Shares. No Class I Share sold in an Offering shall be subject to a stockholder servicing fee. At the Dealer Manager’s discretion, it may reallow up to 100% of the stockholder servicing fees received on the Class T Shares, Class S or Shares and Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due Shares to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I sharesDealers. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager be entitled to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee any additional stockholder servicing fees with respect to any Class T shareD Shares, Class T Shares and Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and Shares held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissionsUpfront Selling Commissions, upfront dealer manager fees, and stockholder servicing fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account Shares would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% (or, in the case of such Shares sold through certain participating broker-dealers, a lower limit as set forth in any applicable agreement between the Dealer Manager and a participating broker-dealer) of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP Company’s distribution reinvestment plan with respect thereto). If, or, solely with respect to Class T sharesfor any reason, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share sale is cancelled or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In additionrescinded, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant shall return to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier Company any fee paid to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation it with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to sale, including any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissionscommission, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablefee and/or stockholder servicing fee. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for to make payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionscommissions to such Dealers without incurring any liability therefor. In connection with the Offering, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition will not be entitled to the other items of receive underwriting compensation set forth (as defined in this Section 3, accordance with the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.applicable FINRA rules) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates aggregate dealer manager fees, stockholder servicing fees, selling commissions and all other forms of underwriting compensation received by the Dealer Manager and all Dealers exceeds 10% of the gross proceeds raised from the sale of Shares in the Offering, excluding proceeds from the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan (the “FINRA Cap”).
3.5 For sales of the Company’s Class W shares, Class A shares and Class I shares prior to the reclassification of such shares on November 27, 2018, for which the Company previously agreed to pay the Dealer Manager, (i) an ongoing dealer manager fee equal to 0.55% per annum of the aggregate NAV of the outstanding Class W shares, (ii) an ongoing dealer manager fee equal to 0.55% per annum of the aggregate NAV of outstanding Class A shares and a distribution fee equal to 0.50% per annum of the aggregate NAV of the outstanding Class A shares and (iii) an ongoing dealer manager fee equal to 0.25% per annum of the aggregate NAV of the outstanding Class I shares, pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated Dealer Manager Agreement dated as of February 10, 2017 (the “Prior Agreement”), the Parties understand and agree that they the terms of this Agreement shall supersede and replace the terms of the Prior Agreement, and that the stockholder servicing fees payable to the Dealer Manager with respect to the Shares under this Agreement shall fully satisfy the Company’s obligations with respect to the payment of ongoing fees to the Dealer Manager under the Prior Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, if such stockholder servicing fees do not cover the full amount of the Company’s obligations with respect to the payment of ongoing fees to the Dealer Manager under the Prior Agreement, then the Dealer Manager will not be entitled to any additional compensation in respect of any such fees payable to the Dealer Manager under the Prior Agreement. The Parties further understand and agree that any fees payable in arrears to Dealers by the Dealer Manager with respect to such sales of Class W shares, Class A shares and Class I shares sold prior to November 27, 2018 in excess of amounts paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred will be monitored and applied towards the FINRA Cap.
3.6 The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares, only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by any Offering Participant as described in the ProspectusCompany. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to acknowledges that the Company a detailed and itemized invoice expects to reimburse its advisor for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total full amount of all organization and offering expensescosts, as defined under without interest, in monthly installments, but the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts aggregate amount reimbursed can never exceed 0.75% of the North American Securities Administrators Associationaggregate gross offering proceeds, Inc. (as amended from time to timeincluding shares issued in connection with the distribution reinvestment plan, but excluding selling commissions charged on Class T Shares and Class S Shares sold in the primary offering. If, during any period, the “NASAA Guidelines”)total unreimbursed amount of such organization and offering costs exceeds the reimbursement limit described above, and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants the excess will be eligible for reimbursement in subsequent periods up to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” limit, calculated on an accumulated basis, until reimbursed in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingfull.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cim Income Nav, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cim Income Nav, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cim Income Nav, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D S Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule Section 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class T, Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer Dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Selected Dealer Agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month quarter in which it Dealer is not eligible on the last day of the monthquarter; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month quarter for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T shareT, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account share would exceed, in the aggregate, exceed 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares share (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T shareT, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesT, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange assets, or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T sharesT, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership BX REIT Advisors L.L.C. (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant Dealer as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, defined under NASAA Guidelines (as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), in Section 4.a. below) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement, Dealer Manager Agreement (Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Company are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement, and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of foreign Assets Control regulations and programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2. With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, current FINRA Rules 20402340 and 5140 and current NASD Rule 2420, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141therein. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statementagrees, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the each Participating Dealer Agreement entered into shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee requirements with respect to sales of Class S its and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described each Participating Dealer’s participation in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all any resales or a portion transfers of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur resale or transfer of the following: (i) a listing of Class I sharesOffered Shares, (ii) the merger it and each Participating Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or consolidation of the Company with Commission Rules or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offeringapplicable Federal or state laws.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus4.3. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant cause the Offered Shares to be offered and provide to sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company a detailed in any other states. The Dealer Manager shall use and itemized invoice for distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any such due diligence expensesOffered Shares only the Prospectus and the Authorized Sales Materials. Notwithstanding anything contained herein The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to the contrary, no payments prospective investors if accompanied or reimbursements made preceded by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesProspectus, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.Section 1.1
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Prospect Flexible Income Fund, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (TP Flexible Income Fund, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (TP Flexible Income Fund, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Corporation and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Corporation and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Corporation hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by (i) any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing and other properly licensed financial intermediaries, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with such Selected Dealer and (ii) any RIA that the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderDealer Manager may retain pursuant to an executed Selected Investment Adviser’s Agreement with such RIA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth conditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Corporation that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives are properly registered and licensed as required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation to act under this Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Corporation, to provide an annual certification to the Corporation that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the Prospectus offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation, any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with all the applicable requirements under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, conduct rules of FINRA or its predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (specifically including, but not in any way limited to NASD Rule 2340, FINRA Rule 2310 (including the obligations with respect to each Offering disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 marketability of prior programs pursuant to this AgreementFINRA Rules 2310(b)(3)(D)) and 5141, and NASD Rule 2420 therein (each, as it may be amended from time to time), and any other applicable foreign, state or local securities or other laws or rules of FINRA or any other applicable self-regulatory agency in offering and selling the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager represents agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA comply and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including shall comply with any applicable requirements with respect to its engagement of one and each Selected Dealer’s participation in any resales or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements transfers of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Offered Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will cease receiving fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesOffered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, Class S shares and Class D shares in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Corporation in any other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Corporation that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Corporation or use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with members of the public in connection with an offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will cause the Selected Dealers to each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Corporation at any time and to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Corporation.
4.4 In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Corporation agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) except as described in the Prospectus, upfront selling commissions (the “Upfront Selling Commissions”) applicable to the total public offering price of Offered Shares of up to 5.2% and 2.2%, respectively, of the gross proceeds received from the sale of Class A and Class T Offered Shares accepted and confirmed by the Corporation. For these purposes, a “sale of Offered Shares” shall occur following the release from escrow of the Minimum Offering (i.e.proceeds, and, if and only if, a transaction has closed with a securities purchaser pursuant to all applicable offering and subscription documents, and the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon Corporation has thereafter distributed the earlier Upfront Selling Commission to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources Dealer Manager in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, transaction. No Upfront Selling Commissions will be paid to the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent Dealer Manager on sales of Class D or Class I Offered Shares;
(10%b) an annual distribution fee (the “Distribution Fee”) of up to 0.80%, 0.50%, and 1.40%, of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offeringestimated value of the Class A, Class D and Class T Offered Shares, respectively, as determined in good faith accordance with applicable FINRA Rules and subject to the annual approval of the Corporation’s board of directors and its acknowledgment of compliance with the terms of any distribution plan required to be adopted by it. In addition, as set forth in the Prospectus, the Dealer Manager Manager, in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the may reallow a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered the Class T shares, Class S shares Offered Shares to the Selected Dealer. The applicable Distribution Fee will accrue daily and Class D shares of will be payable to the Company’s common stock issued by Dealer Manager on a monthly basis and in accordance with the Company during the term of a particular Offering, offering terms and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be conditions as set forth in the Participating Prospectus. No Distribution Fee will be payable for any Offered Shares issued under the Corporation’s distribution reinvestment plan (the “DRP”). All Distribution Fees payable with respect to the sales of Class A, Class D, or Class T Offered Shares will cease in accordance with the offering terms and conditions as set forth in the Prospectus. No Distribution Fee will be payable with respect to sales of Class I Offered Shares; and
(c) As set forth in the Prospectus, the Class A, Class D and Class T Offered Shares will automatically convert to Class I shares subject to and upon the satisfaction of certain conditions as described in the Prospectus.
4.5 The Dealer AgreementManager represents and warrants to the Corporation that, any agreement to the extent required by a Selected Dealer Agreement with a Selected RIADealer, Dealer Manager or it affiliates will pay such Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into Dealer:
(a) additional selling commissions (the “Additional Selling Commissions,” and together with the Offering Participants or Servicing DealersUpfront Selling Commissions, the “Selling Commissions”) of up to 1.3% of gross proceeds received from the sale of each of Class A and Class T Offered Shares; and
(b) a dealer manager concession (the “Dealer Manager Concession”) at the time of such sale of up to 1.25% of gross proceeds received from the sale of each of Class A, Class D and Class T Offered Shares. No Dealer Manager Concession will be payable to Selected Dealer with respect to Offered Shares sold to any “benefit plan investor” as applicable. that term is defined in ERISA § 3(42), 29 U.S.C. § 1003(42).
4.6 The Company Corporation will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Selected Dealer for direct payment of commissionsSelling Commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees Dealer Manager Concessions or the Servicing Fee Distribution Fees to such Offering Participant or Servicing Selected Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance all such of dealer manager fees Selling Commissions, Dealer Manager Concessions or the Servicing Fee Distribution Fees to Offering Participants and Servicing Selected Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Companyabove, the Company Corporation, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Escrow Agent or such other agent appointed by it, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionsSelling Commissions, dealer manager fees Dealer Manager Concessions or Servicing the Distribution Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing such Selected Dealers on behalf of without incurring any liability therefor. The Selling Commissions, Dealer Manager Concessions and the Distribution Fees payable to the Dealer Manager without incurring with respect to any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered promptly following the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as stockholders by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRACorporation.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 4.7 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Corporation, the Adviser and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company Corporation by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
k. 4.8 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Corporation and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Adviser that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Corporation, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Corporation, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said Escrow Agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp IV), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp IV), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp IV)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. 3.1 The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA FINRA; (ii) it will at all times maintain and that employ an adequate number of administrative personnel (who shall be acceptable to the Company) to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and any supplemental or successor agreement and shall be solely responsible for the compensation of such personnel; (iii) it will be responsible for payment of such other costs incurred by it in connection with the Offering as shall be agreed between the Company and the Dealer Manager, which costs shall not exceed the amounts received by the Dealer Manager as a dealer manager fee (discussed below); (iv) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (v) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs (“AML Program”) in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (“AML Program”), reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company; however, the Offering, including Company shall not rely on the AML Program of Dealer Manager with respect to its engagement customers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersDealers who acquire Shares, but will rely on the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements AML Program of each of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestrespective Dealers.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statementthis agreement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Sharesup to 7.0% of the gross offering proceeds before re-allowance to participating broker-dealers. Pursuant to the Soliciting Dealer Agreements, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company re-allow 100% of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the its selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the participating broker-dealer of record/custodian dealers. As compensation for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when Company will also pay the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class Ta dealer manager fee of up to 2.5% of gross offering proceeds, Class S or Class D shares giving rise before re-allowance to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the participating broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (includingdealers, but not limited toless than $6,000 per month after said re-allowances. Pursuant to separately negotiated agreements, a reregistration due Dealer Manager will pay to a sale or a transfer or a change in persons affiliated with the form of ownership of the account), then the Company and/or its affiliates who are registered representatives and independent contractors with Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated Manager (the “Servicing DealerWholesalers”), commissions of up to 1.5% of gross offering proceeds and re-allow to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into Dealers, a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance marketing fee and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms due diligence expense reimbursement of such agreement related up to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.751.0% of the gross offering proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources will not exceed the maximum permitted under the FINRA and NASAA REIT Guidelines to broker-dealers participating in connection with such Offeringthe offering. Notwithstanding the foregoing, including selling no commissions, dealer manager fees, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until the gross proceeds from Primary of the Shares sold are received in such good funds by the Company. To the extent Dealer Manager instructs the transfer agent for the Company (the “Transfer Agent”) to re-allow and pay the Dealers directly out of the proceeds the REIT Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer of the Dealers for direct payment of commissions, commissions to such Dealers. No sales commission or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they fee will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and with respect to Shares sold pursuant to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing Company’s dividend reinvestment plan and/or purchases of Shares made directly by clients of investment advisers. Total underwriting compensation, including sales commissions, the dealer manager fee and underwriter expense reimbursement may not exceed the maximum amount allowed under the rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Shares through Dealers only the Prospectus and provide such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.5 The Dealer Manager, through the Dealers, shall cause Shares to the Company a detailed be offered and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and such list of jurisdictions shall cause total organization be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and offering expenses, as defined under sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts account of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany in any other states.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hartman vREIT XXI, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Hartman Short Term Income Properties XX, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Hartman Short Term Income Properties XX, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Company and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of foreign Assets Control regulations and programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2. With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, current FINRA Rules 20402340 and 5140 and current NASD Rule 2420, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141therein. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statementagrees, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the each Participating Dealer Agreement entered into shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee requirements with respect to sales of Class S its and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described each Participating Dealer’s participation in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all any resales or a portion transfers of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur resale or transfer of the following: (i) a listing of Class I sharesOffered Shares, (ii) the merger it and each Participating Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or consolidation of the Company with Commission Rules or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offeringapplicable Federal or state laws.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus4.3. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant cause the Offered Shares to be offered and provide to sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company a detailed in any other states. The Dealer Manager shall use and itemized invoice for distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any such due diligence expensesOffered Shares only the Prospectus and the Authorized Sales Materials. Notwithstanding anything contained herein The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to the contrary, no payments prospective investors if accompanied or reimbursements made preceded by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesProspectus, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.Section 1.1
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Triton Pacific Investment Corporation, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Triton Pacific Investment Corporation, Inc.), Participating Dealer Agreement
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Corporation and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Corporation and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Corporation hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Selected Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company Corporation that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the Dealer Manager’s participation in USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the distribution “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the Shares International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the Offering, including with respect to its engagement offering and sale of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersthe Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Corporation, to provide an annual certification to the Corporation that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 2111, 2310, 5110 2310 (including the obligations with respect to disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and marketability of prior programs pursuant to FINRA Rules 2310(b)(3)(D)) and 5141, and NASD Rule 2420 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date its and each Selected Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such OfferingOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager Parties agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Offering Participants shall commence the offering resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Offering for cash to the public Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares are registered has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or qualified sold for sale or the account of the Corporation in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Corporation that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Corporation or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will cause the Selected Dealers to each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company Corporation at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the CompanyCorporation.
c. Subject 4.4 In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Corporation agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) a dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Offered Shares (the “Dealer Manager Fee”), a portion of which may be reallowed to Selected Dealers (as described more fully in the Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with such Selected Dealer), up to an aggregate maximum of 1.5% of the gross proceeds of the Offered Shares sold, which reallowance, if any, shall be determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the number of shares sold by such Selected Dealer, the assistance of such Selected Dealer in marketing the Offering and due diligence expenses incurred, and the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to selected broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Offering Period; provided, however, that no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Offered Shares by an officer, director or employee of the Corporation, the Adviser or their respective affiliates; and
(b) subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Offered Shares sold, which commissions may be amended, restated reallowed in whole or supplemented from time to time, subject in part to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Selected Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Offered Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to commissions, as described more fully in the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceDealer; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations commissions described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to clause (b) shall be payable in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% purchase of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the followingOffered Shares: (i) through an investment advisory representative affiliated with a listing of Class I shares, Selected Dealer who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the investor; (ii) the merger by a Selected Dealer (or consolidation such Selected Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of the Company with such Selected Dealer (or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Companysuch Selected Dealer’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange registered representative), or (iii) by an officer, director or employee of the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager feesCorporation, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other OfferingAdviser or their respective affiliates.
g. 4.5 The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company Corporation will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Selected Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees commissions or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Selected Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Selected Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Companyabove, the Company Corporation, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Escrow Agent or such other agent appointed by it, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Selected Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered substantially concurrently with the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as defined under stockholders by the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCorporation.
j. 4.6 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Corporation, the Adviser and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company Corporation by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 4.7 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Corporation and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Adviser that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Corporation, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Corporation, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said Escrow Agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Freedom Capital Corp/Md), Dealer Manager Agreement (Freedom Capital Corp/Md), Dealer Manager Agreement (Freedom Capital Corp/Md)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Operating Partnership (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
5.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Follow-On Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Follow-On Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Subuse its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Follow-On Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Primary Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this AgreementAgreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the Money Laundering Abatement Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby covenants to remain in compliance with such requirements and shall, upon request by the Company, provide a certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program is consistent with the AML Rules, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the Money Laundering Abatement Act.
5.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules Rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingFINRA, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 21112420, 23102730, 5110 2740, and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date its and each Participating Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such OfferingOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager Parties agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Offering Participants shall commence the offering resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
5.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Offering for cash to the public Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares are registered has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or qualified sold for sale or the account of the Company in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other states. The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and the Participating Dealers will each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject 5.4 In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) a dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.5% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Primary Shares (the “Dealer Manager Fee”), a portion of which may be reallowed to Participating Dealers (as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with such Participating Dealer), which reallowance, if any, shall be determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the number of shares sold by such Participating Dealer, the assistance of such Participating Dealer in marketing the Offering and due diligence expenses incurred, and the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to participating broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Follow-On Offering Period; provided, however, that no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Primary Shares by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Advisor or their respective affiliates; and
(b) subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S 6.0% of the gross proceeds of the Primary Shares and Class D Primary Sharessold, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling which commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager in whole or in part to the Dealers Participating Dealer who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceDealer; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations commissions described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to clause (b) shall be payable in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% purchase of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the followingPrimary Shares: (i) through an investment advisory representative affiliated with a listing of Class I shares, Participating Dealer who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the investor; (ii) the merger by a Participating Dealer (or consolidation such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of the Company with such Participating Dealer (or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Companysuch Participating Dealer’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange registered representative), or (iii) by an officer, director or employee of the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager feesCompany, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal Advisor or their respective affiliates. The Company will not pay to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager any Dealer Manager Fee or selling commissions in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion respect of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares purchase of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other OfferingDRIP Shares.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. 5.5 The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees commissions or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Participating Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Company Escrow Agent, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Participating Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered substantially concurrently with the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as defined under stockholders by the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany.
j. 5.6 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Operating Partnership and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 5.7 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Operating Partnership that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Company, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Paladin Realty Income Properties Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (Paladin Realty Income Properties Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (Paladin Realty Income Properties Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderFinancial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject , and Rule 2420 of the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestNASD Conduct Rules (or such rule’s successor FINRA Rule).
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in of the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and substantially all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f3.g. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing distribution fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Distribution Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Distribution Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Distribution Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing FeeShares, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees portion of the Distribution Fee related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, Shares shall cease, and beginning on such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any date, such portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees Distribution Fee may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, Shares if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), ) to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), ) and such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Distribution Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional “Additional Servicing Dealers”) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, all in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement.
e. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.g. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager the dealer manager fee as set forth in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Dealer Manager Fee”). The Company will pay the Dealer Manager Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow a portion of the Dealer Manager Fee to Dealers who sold Shares giving rise to a portion of such Dealer Manager Fee to the extent the Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Shares giving rise to a portion of the Dealer Manager Fee is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Shares, then such Dealer’s entitlement to portion of the Dealer Manager Fee related to such Shares shall cease, and beginning on such date, such Dealer Manager Fee may be reallowed to the then-current Servicing Dealer, if any, to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager and such Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Dealer Manager Fee to Additional Servicing Dealers pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance, all in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement.
f. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.g. below, the Company may pay to the Dealer Manager a primary dealer fee with respect to certain sales of Shares as set forth in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The Dealer Manager may reallow a portion of the primary dealer fee to the Dealers involved in such sales based on the portion of the gross proceeds raised from their customers. The primary dealer fee will be considered underwriting compensation (as defined in accordance with, and subject to the underwriting compensation limits of, applicable FINRA rules). Any primary dealer fee payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of the applicable orders submitted by purchasers of Shares giving rise to the primary dealer fee. The terms of the reallowance to the Dealers will be set forth in the Selected Dealer Agreements entered into with the Dealers. The Company will not be liable or responsible to the Dealers for direct payment of any primary dealer fee, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for reallowance of the primary dealer fee to the Dealers. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) no primary dealer fee will be due from the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services Company with respect to issuer direct sales made to the Shares Company’s executive officers and directors and their immediate family members, as well as officers and employees of Dividend Capital Total Advisors LLC (iithe “Advisor”) and the Company agrees that it will not deem Advisor’s product specialists or other affiliates of the Dealer Manager to be Advisor and their immediate family members, the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing Company’s product specialists and their affiliates and, if approved by the Dealer ManagerCompany’s board of directors, joint venture partners, consultants and other service providers.
f. g. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Distribution Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection Dealer Manager Fee with respect to an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon when the earlier to occur aggregate selling commissions, Distribution Fee, Dealer Manager Fee and all other forms of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources (as defined in accordance with applicable FINRA rules) paid in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) Offering equals 10.0% of the gross proceeds raised from the sale of Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee and the Distribution Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T sharesA, Class S shares W and Class D I shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Distribution Fee and Dealer Manager Fee with respect to any shares of the Company’s common stock on the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of the class of such shares on a national securities exchange or (ii) such shares no longer being outstanding, for example (without limitation), upon their redemption or other repurchase by the Company, upon the dissolution of the Company, or upon a merger or other extraordinary transaction in which the Company is a party and in which the shares are exchanged for cash or other securities.
g. h. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, Distribution Fee, Dealer Manager Fee and primary dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, commissions or any reallowance of the Dealer Manager Fee, Distribution Fee or primary dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of the Dealer Manager Fee, Distribution Fee and primary dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. i. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties or the Advisor for all items of underwriting compensation referenced certain costs and expenses incurred by such entities incident to the Offering as provided in the ProspectusProspectus (which may be amended and supplemented from time to time), to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, including expenses, fees and taxes incurred in connection with: (a) customary travel, lodging, meals and reasonable entertainment expenses incurred in connection with the Offering; (b) costs and expenses of conducting educational conferences and seminars, attending broker-dealer sponsored conferences, or educational conferences sponsored by the Company; (c) customary promotional items; and (d) legal fees of the Dealer Manager; provided, however, that, the aggregate of all underwriting compensation paid in connection with the Offering may not exceed 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Primary Shares in such Offering, excluding reimbursement of bona fide due diligence expenses as provided under Section 3.j.
i. j. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA3.i, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the ProspectusDealer. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein .
k. The Dealer Manager may elect to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company pay supplemental fees and commissions to certain Dealers and Servicing Dealers with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesClass I Primary Shares, as defined under which may be paid at the Statement time of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to sale or over time, provided, however, that the “NASAA Guidelines”), parties acknowledge and FINRA rules, agree that (a) such supplemental fees and commissions will be considered underwriting compensation subject to exceed 15the 10% of gross proceeds from underwriting compensation limit and (b) such Offeringsupplemental fees and commissions will not be reimbursed by the Company.
j. l. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. m. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Corporation and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Corporation and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Corporation hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Selected Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company Corporation that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.standing,
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp III), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp III), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp III)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Operating Partnership (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1 Subject to the terms described in Section 15 below, the Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Primary Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this AgreementAgreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the Money Laundering Abatement Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby covenants to remain in compliance with such requirements and shall, upon request by the Company, provide a certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program is consistent with the AML Rules, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the Money Laundering Abatement Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules Rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingFINRA, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 21112420, 23102730, 5110 2740, and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date its and each Participating Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such OfferingOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager Parties agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Offering Participants shall commence the offering resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Offering for cash to the public Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares are registered has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or qualified sold for sale or the account of the Company in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other states. The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and the Participating Dealers will each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject 4.4 In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.5% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Primary Shares (the “Dealer Manager Fee”), a portion of which may be reallowed to Participating Dealers (as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with such Participating Dealer), which reallowance, if any, shall be determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the number of shares sold by such Participating Dealer, the assistance of such Participating Dealer in marketing the Offering and due diligence expenses incurred, and the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to participating broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Offering Period; provided, however, that no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Shares by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Advisor or their respective affiliates; and
(b) subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Primary Shares and Class D Primary Sharessold, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling which commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager in whole or in part to the Dealers Participating Dealer who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Offered Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceDealer; provided, however, that upon no commissions described in this clause (b) shall be payable in respect of the date when purchase of Shares: (i) through an investment advisory representative affiliated with a Participating Dealer who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the investor; (ii) by a Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of such Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), or (iii) by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Advisor or their respective affiliates. The Company will not pay to the Dealer Manager is notified that any Dealer Manager Fee or selling commissions in respect of the purchase of any DRIP Shares.
4.5 Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amounts whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer who sold Manager under Section 4.4 unless or until $2,000,000 has been raised from the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion sale of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Primary Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated Offering (the “Servicing DealerMinimum Offering”). Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, investments will be held in escrow. If the Minimum Offering is not obtained within the time periods specified in the Prospectus, investments will be returned to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer ManagerProspectus.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. 4.6 The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer for direct payment of commissions, commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Participating Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Company Escrow Agent, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf reallowance of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Participating Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered substantially concurrently with the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as defined under stockholders by the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany.
j. 4.7 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Operating Partnership and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 4.8 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Operating Partnership that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Company, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Green Realty Trust, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Green Realty Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Fund (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Fund are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
5.1 The Dealer Manager Agrees that the Fund hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor to solicit and to cause Participating Broker-Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of selling for cash Offered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, and otherwise upon the public up to the maximum amount of Shares other terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocationin, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through , Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement and the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Investor Application, and the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell procure subscribers for the Offered Shares. It is expressly understood between the Dealer Manager and the Fund that the Adviser and Dealer Manager may cooperate with respect to the offering and sale of the Offered Shares primarily through with other broker dealers who are registered as broker dealers with the Offering Participants SEC, members of FINRA and duly licensed by the appropriate regulatory agency of each jurisdiction in which they will conduct offers and sales of the Offered Shares, or with broker dealers exempt from all such registration requirements. Such other participating broker dealers may be retained by the Dealer Manager as brokers on said terms and conditions set forth identical or similar to this Agreement and shall receive such rates of compensation as are agreed to between the Dealer Manager and the respective other participating broker dealers and as are in accordance with the Prospectus terms of the Registration Statement.
5.2 The Dealer Manager agrees to use its best efforts to solicit orders for the sale of the Shares at the public offering price and will undertake such advertising and promotion as it believes is reasonable in connection with respect such solicitation. The Dealer Manager shall review and file such materials with FINRA, state regulators or other regulatory agencies to each Offering the extent required by the rules of FINRA or such applicable states or regulatory agencies, respectively. This shall not prevent the Dealer Manager from entering into like arrangements (including arrangements involving the payment of underwriting commissions) with other issuers. The Dealer Manager will act only on its own behalf as principal should it choose to enter into selling agreements with Participating Broker-Dealers.
5.3 The Dealer Manager represents to the Fund that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives are properly registered and licensed as required by any additional terms applicable law, rule, or conditions specified in Schedule 2 regulation to act under this Agreement, and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Fund, to provide an annual certification to the Fund that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
5.4 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Broker-Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation, any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with all the applicable requirements under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, conduct rules of FINRA or its predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (specifically including, but not in any way limited to FINRA Rules 2040, 2231, 5110 and 5141 therein (each, as may be amended from time to time), and any other applicable foreign, state or local securities or other laws or rules of FINRA or any other applicable self-regulatory agency in offering and selling the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any applicable requirements with respect to its and each Participating Broker-Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Offered Shares. Such compliance includes submitting initial filings and all subsequent responses required through FINRA’s Public Offering System on behalf of the Fund. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Broker-Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
5.5 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. The Dealer Manager shall ensure that no Offered Shares are offered or sold for the account of the Fund in any other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company Fund that it is a member in good standing of FINRA will not use any sales literature not authorized and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to approved by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution Fund or use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with members of the Shares public in connection with offers or sales or the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Offered Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will not make any recommendations cause the Participating Broker-Dealers to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager each agree, to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company Fund at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the CompanyFund.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under 5.6 In consideration for the caption “Plan of Distribution” in services rendered by the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeDealer Manager, the Company Fund agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions the compensation set forth in connection Exhibit B with sales respect to a sale of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Offered Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this by a Participating Broker-Dealer through a Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to In accordance with the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee distribution and/or service fees, upfront selling commissions (the “Up-Front Selling Commissions”) and dealer manager fees (the “Dealer Manager Fees” and, together with the Up-Front Selling Commissions, the “Selling Commissions”) to (a) any Dealers who sold Participating Broker-Dealers. For these purposes, a “sale of Offered Shares” shall occur following the Class Trelease from escrow of the Offering proceeds, Class S or Class D shares giving rise and, if and only if, a transaction has closed with securities purchased pursuant to a portion all applicable offering and subscription documents, and the Fund has thereafter distributed the Selling Commission to the Dealer Manager in connection with such transaction. See Schedule 1 of such Servicing Fee the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement for further details regarding the Selling Commissions. Any amounts of Selling Commissions not reallowed to the extent provided in the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement shall be retained by the Dealer Manager. The Dealer Manager is responsible for making reallowance payments to Participating Broker-Dealers. The Fund may sell shares directly in its sole discretion and no compensation shall be payable or owing to the Dealer Manager in connection with such direct sales. In connection with purchases of shares pursuant to our distribution reinvestment plan or direct sales as described in the Plan of Distribution, the Up-Front Selling Commissions and Dealer provides for such a reallowance Manager Fees will not be paid.
5.7 The Dealer Manager represents and such Dealer is in compliance with warrants to the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowanceFund that, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent required by a Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, Dealer Manager or its affiliates will compensate such Participating Broker-Dealer in accordance with the agreement between Fund’s Prospectus and the applicable Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement.
5.8 The Fund shall pay the Dealer Manager, or among through the Dealer Manager, the brokerParticipating Broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or Dealers, for due diligence or review fees charged in connection with conducting due diligence required to carry out responsibilities under this Dealer Manager Agreement or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceParticipating Broker-Dealer Agreement; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, fees are reasonable and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books documented and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term in advance of a particular Offering, incurring such costs and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableexpenses. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) Fund shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties Participating Broker-Dealers for reasonable bona fide out-of-pocket due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or such Participating Broker-Dealer; provided, that such fees are reasonable and documented and agreed to by the Company. Such due diligence expenses may include reasonable travel, lodging, meals and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described Participating Broker-Dealer and their personnel when visiting the Fund’s offices to verify information relating to the Fund or Offered Shares. The Fund shall also reimburse the Dealer Manager for filing fees in connection with FINRA filings made on behalf of the ProspectusFund. The Dealer Manager or any Participating Broker-Dealer shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company Fund a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence or filing expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein .
5.9 In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the contraryDealer Manager and any Participating Broker-Dealer participating in the Offering, no payments or reimbursements made including, but not limited to, Dealer Manager Fee and the Selling Commissions, exceed such amount permitted by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesFINRA Rule 5110, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Associationamended, Inc. (as amended modified or supplemented from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. 5.10 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Fund and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company Fund by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
k. 5.11 The Dealer Manager Parties and shall provide to the Fund timely copies of all correspondence with FINRA (through FINRA’s Public Offering ParticipantsSystem, and all email or other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares forms of communication) on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the ProspectusFund.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Oxford Park Income Fund, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Oxford Park Income Fund, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Corporation and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Corporation and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Corporation hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by (i) any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing and other properly licensed financial intermediaries, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with such Selected Dealer and (ii) any RIA that the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderDealer Manager may retain pursuant to an executed Selected Investment Adviser’s Agreement with such RIA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth conditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Corporation that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives are properly registered and licensed as required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation to act under this Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Corporation, to provide an annual certification to the Corporation that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the Prospectus offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation, any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with all the applicable requirements under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, conduct rules of FINRA or its predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (specifically including, but not in any way limited to NASD Rule 2340, FINRA Rule 2310 (including the obligations with respect to each Offering disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 marketability of prior programs pursuant to this AgreementFINRA Rules 2310(b)(3)(D)) and 5141, and NASD Rule 2420 therein (each, as it may be amended from time to time), and any other applicable foreign, state or local securities or other laws or rules of FINRA or any other applicable self-regulatory agency in offering and selling the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any applicable requirements with respect to its and each Selected Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Corporation in any other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company Corporation that it is a member in good standing of FINRA will not use any sales literature not authorized and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to approved by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution Corporation or use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with members of the Shares public in connection with offers or sales or the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Offered Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will not make any recommendations cause the Selected Dealers to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager each agree, to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company Corporation at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the CompanyCorporation.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under 4.4 In consideration for the caption “Plan of Distribution” in services rendered by the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeDealer Manager, the Company Corporation agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, Manager:
(a) except as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable the Prospectus, upfront selling commissions payable (the “Upfront Selling Commissions”) applicable to the total public offering price of Offered Shares of up to 3.00% of the gross proceeds received from the sale of Offered Shares accepted and confirmed by the Corporation. For these purposes, a “sale of Offered Shares” shall occur following the release from escrow of the Minimum Offering proceeds, and, if, and only if, a transaction has closed with a securities purchaser pursuant to all applicable offering and subscription documents, and the Corporation has thereafter distributed the Upfront Selling Commission to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently in connection with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions such transaction. Upfront Selling Commission may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager in whole or in part to the Dealers Selected Dealer who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Offered Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Selected Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion no commissions described in this clause (a) shall be payable in respect of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer purchase of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, Offered Shares: (i) through an investment advisory representative affiliated with a Selected Dealer who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and investor; (ii) by a Selected Dealer (or such Selected Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of such Selected Dealer (or such Selected Dealer’s registered representative) or (iii) by an officer, director or employee of the Company agrees that it will not deem Corporation, the Dealer Manager to be the broker-Adviser or their respective affiliates;
(b) a dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased manager fee in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end amount of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.751.25% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares the Offered Shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto“Dealer Manager Fee”), or, solely with respect all or a portion of which may be reallowed to Class T shares, a lower limit Selected Dealers (as set forth described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert entered into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such OfferingSelected Dealer), including selling commissionswhich reallowance, dealer manager feesif any, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as shall be determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementdiscretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the portion number of shares sold by such Selected Dealer, the assistance of such Selected Dealer in marketing the Offering and due diligence expenses incurred, and the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to selected broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Offering Period; provided, however, that no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the Servicing Fee accruing purchase of Offered Shares by an officer, director or employee of the Corporation, the Adviser or their respective affiliates, or with respect to publicly registered Class T sharesOffered Shares sold to any “benefit plan investor” as that term is defined in ERISA § 3(42), Class S shares and Class D shares 29 U.S.C. § 1003(42);
(c) an annual distribution fee (the “Distribution Fee”) of up to 1.00%, of the Companyestimated value of the Offered Shares, as determined in accordance with applicable FINRA Rules and subject to the annual approval of the Corporation’s common stock issued by board of directors and its acknowledgment of compliance with the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissionsdistribution plan required to be adopted by it. In addition, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be as set forth in the Participating Prospectus, the Dealer AgreementManager, any agreement in its sole discretion, may reallow all or a portion of the Distribution Fee with respect to the Offered Shares to the Selected Dealer. The Distribution Fee will accrue daily and will be payable to the Dealer Manager on a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into monthly basis and in accordance with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealersoffering terms and conditions as set forth in the Prospectus. No Distribution Fee will be payable for any Offered Shares issued under the Corporation’s distribution reinvestment plan (the “DRP”). All Distribution Fees payable with respect to the sales of Offered Shares will cease in accordance with the offering terms and conditions as set forth in the Prospectus; and
(d) as set forth in the Prospectus, each Class T Offered Share will automatically convert to a share of the No-Load Share Class (as applicable. defined in the Prospectus) subject to and upon the satisfaction of certain conditions as described in the Prospectus.
4.5 The Company Corporation will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Selected Dealer for direct payment of commissionsUpfront Selling Commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees Dealer Manager Fees or the Servicing Fee Distribution Fees to such Offering Participant or Servicing Selected Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance all such of dealer manager fees Upfront Selling Commissions, Dealer Manager Fees or the Servicing Fee Distribution Fees to Offering Participants and Servicing Selected Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Companyabove, the Company Corporation, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Escrow Agent or such other agent appointed by it, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionsUpfront Selling Commissions, dealer manager fees Dealer Manager Fees or Servicing the Distribution Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing such Selected Dealers on behalf of without incurring any liability therefor. The Upfront Selling Commissions, Dealer Manager Fees and the Distribution Fees payable to the Dealer Manager without incurring with respect to any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered promptly following the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as stockholders by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRACorporation.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 4.6 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Corporation, the Adviser and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company Corporation by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
k. 4.7 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Corporation and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Adviser that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Corporation, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Corporation, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said Escrow Agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp IV), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp IV)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $2,475,000,000 in Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (a) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that the NASD; (b) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (c) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable NASD rules, SEC rules and the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange USA PATRIOT Act of 19342001 or will require that is Dealers establish such programs, as amended (reasonably expected to detect and cause the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and Prospectus plus a dealer stockholder servicing manager fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between “Plan of Distribution” Section of the Prospectus. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager and under this Section 3.3 unless or until subscriptions for the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end purchase of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of Shares have been accepted by the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary of the Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith are deposited by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionscommissions to such Dealers without incurring any liability therefor. With respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition agrees to reduce its dealer manager fee to the other items percentage, if any, of underwriting compensation the gross proceeds of the Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items Plan of underwriting compensation referenced in Distribution” Section of the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, each owner, director, officer and employee of the Company, and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions distribute in conjunction with the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell sale of any Shares only the Prospectus (as it may be supplemented or amended from time-to-time) and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares at to be offered and sold only in such jurisdictions where the public Dealer Manager and the respective Dealer are licensed to do so. In addition, the Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company where the offering prices per share and sale of its Shares have been authorized by appropriate regulatory authorities and such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as determined additional states are added. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in accordance with the Prospectusany other jurisdiction.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Reit I Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Reit I Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Operating Partnership (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Primary Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this AgreementAgreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the Money Laundering Abatement Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby covenants to remain in compliance with such requirements and shall, upon request by the Company, provide a certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program is consistent with the AML Rules, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the Money Laundering Abatement Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules Rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingFINRA, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 21112420, 23102730, 5110 2740, and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date its and each Participating Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such OfferingOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager Parties agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Offering Participants shall commence the offering resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Offering for cash to the public Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares are registered has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or qualified sold for sale or the account of the Company in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other states. The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and the Participating Dealers will each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject 4.4 In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) a dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Primary Shares (the “Dealer Manager Fee”), a portion of which may be reallowed to Participating Dealers (as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with such Participating Dealer), which reallowance, if any, shall be determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the number of shares sold by such Participating Dealer, the assistance of such Participating Dealer in marketing the Offering and due diligence expenses incurred, and the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to participating broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Offering Period; provided, however, that no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Shares by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Advisor or their respective affiliates; and
(b) subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Primary Shares and Class D Primary Sharessold, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling which commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager in whole or in part to the Dealers Participating Dealer who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Offered Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceDealer; provided, however, that upon no commissions described in this clause (b) shall be payable in respect of the date when purchase of Shares: (i) through an investment advisory representative affiliated with a Participating Dealer who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the investor; (ii) by a Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of such Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), or (iii) by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Advisor or their respective affiliates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as described in the Prospectus, the Dealer Manager is notified that has agreed to sell Primary Shares to certain persons identified by the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise Company pursuant to a portion “friends and family program” at the public offering price, net of the Servicing Fee selling commissions or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I sharesFees. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee agrees to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement work together with the Dealer Manager Company to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance implement this program and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued execute sales under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect program according to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between procedures agreed upon by the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were soldCompany. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account The Company will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, not pay to the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing any Dealer Manager Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares or selling commissions in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur respect of the following: (i) a listing purchase of Class I sharesany DRIP Shares.
4.5 Notwithstanding the foregoing, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling no commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal payments or amounts whatsoever will be paid to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager under Section 4.4 unless or until $2,000,000 has been raised from the sale of Primary Shares in its sole discretionthe Offering (the “Minimum Offering”). For purposes of this AgreementUntil the Minimum Offering is obtained, investments will be held in escrow. If the portion of Minimum Offering is not obtained within the Servicing Fee accruing time periods specified in the Prospectus, investments will be returned to the investors in accordance with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other OfferingProspectus.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. 4.6 The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer for direct payment of commissions, commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Participating Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Company Escrow Agent, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf reallowance of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Participating Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered substantially concurrently with the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as defined under stockholders by the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany.
j. 4.7 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Operating Partnership and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 4.8 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Operating Partnership that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Company, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Green Realty Trust, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Green Realty Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. 3.1 The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA FINRA; (ii) it will at all times maintain and that employ an adequate number of administrative personnel (who shall be acceptable to the Company) to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and any supplemental or successor agreement and shall be solely responsible for the compensation of such personnel; (iii) it will -3- be responsible for payment of such other costs incurred by it in connection with the Offering as shall be agreed between the Company and the Dealer Manager, which costs shall not exceed the amounts received by the Dealer Manager as a dealer manager fee (discussed below); (iv) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (v) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs (“AML Program”) in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (“AML Program”), reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company; however, the Offering, including Company shall not rely on the AML Program of Dealer Manager with respect to its engagement customers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersDealers who acquire Shares, but will rely on the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements AML Program of each of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestrespective Dealers.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statementthis agreement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of up to 7.0% of the gross offering proceeds before re-allowance to participating broker-dealers for the sale of Class A shares and up to 3% of the gross offering proceeds for the sale of Class T Primary Sharesshares. Pursuant to the Soliciting Dealer Agreements, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company re-allow 100% of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the its selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the participating broker-dealer of record/custodian dealers. As compensation for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when Company will also pay the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class Ta dealer manager fee of up to 3.0% of gross offering proceeds, Class S or Class D shares giving rise before re-allowance to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the participating broker-dealer of record dealers. Pursuant to separately negotiated agreements, Dealer Manager will pay to persons affiliated with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in Company and/or its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such affiliates who are registered representatives and independent contractors with Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated Manager (the “Servicing DealerWholesalers”), commissions of up to 1.5% of gross offering proceeds and re-allow to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into Dealers, a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance marketing fee and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms due diligence expense reimbursement of such agreement related up to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all 1.5% of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceedgross offering proceeds which, in the aggregate, 8.75% of will not exceed the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued maximum permitted under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect FINRA and NASAA REIT Guidelines to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth broker-dealers participating in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareoffering. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving shall receive and reallow to the Servicing Fee Soliciting Dealer that sold the Shares, a distribution and shareholder servicing fee on the sale of Class T shares which accrues daily and is calculated on outstanding Class T Shares issued in the primary offering in an amount equal to one percent (1%) per annum of the purchase price of the Class T Share paid by purchaser. This fee is to compensate the dealer manager and participating soliciting dealers for ongoing services and expenses related to the marketing and shareholder support of such T shares, such as maintaining regular communication with shareholders, responding to questions about the investment and general advice concerning the investment and asset allocation. Soliciting dealers selling the T shares are required to maintain these services at least until such time as the Class S T share converts to Class A shares as set out in the Prospectus. The Company’s obligation to pay the distribution and Class D shares in connection shareholder servicing fee with an Offering (i.e., pursuant respect to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, T Shares sold in the aggregateOffering will survive only until such Class T Shares convert to Class A Shares as described in the Prospectus or until termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling no commissions, dealer manager fees, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until the gross proceeds from Primary of the Shares sold are received in such good funds by the Company. To the extent Dealer Manager instructs the transfer agent for the Company (the “Transfer Agent”) to re-allow and pay the Dealers directly out of the proceeds the REIT Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer of the Dealers for direct payment of commissions, commissions to such Dealers. No sales commission or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they fee will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and with respect to Shares sold pursuant to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing Company’s dividend reinvestment plan and/or purchases of Shares made directly by clients of investment advisers. Total underwriting compensation, including sales commissions, the dealer -4- manager fee and underwriter expense reimbursement may not exceed the maximum amount allowed under the rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Shares through Dealers only the Prospectus and provide such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.5 The Dealer Manager, through the Dealers, shall cause Shares to the Company a detailed be offered and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and such list of jurisdictions shall cause total organization be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and offering expenses, as defined under sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts account of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany in any other states.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hartman vREIT XXI, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Hartman vREIT XXI, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the a maximum amount of $737,500,000 in Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right directly or through Dealers, all of reallocation, whom shall be members of FINRA or registered investment advisors who are paid no commission or as otherwise described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (a) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (b) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (c) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange USA PATRIOT Act of 19342001 or will require that its Dealers establish such programs, as amended (reasonably expected to detect and cause the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and Prospectus plus a dealer stockholder servicing manager fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between “Plan of Distribution” Section of the Prospectus. The Company will also reimburse the Dealer Manager for all items of underwriter compensation referenced in the Prospectus to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company, provided that the Company’s reimbursement payments shall not cause (i) total underwriting compensation to exceed 10% of gross proceeds from the Offering (excluding proceeds from the offering of Shares pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan), or (ii) total organization and offering expenses to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareOffering. In additionaccordance with FINRA Rule 2310, the Company shall also reimburse the Dealer Manager will cease receiving for bona fide invoiced due diligence expenses of the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesDealers and non-participating broker-dealers, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant subject to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon cap on organization and offering expenses described above. Notwithstanding the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I sharesforegoing, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling no commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes under this Section 3.3 unless or until subscriptions for the purchase of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of Shares have been accepted by the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to liability therefor. The Company will not pay selling commissions or a dealer manager fee for shares sold under the other items of underwriting compensation distribution reinvestment plan as set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items Plan of underwriting compensation referenced in Distribution” Section of the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company, each owner, director, officer and employee of the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions distribute in conjunction with the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell sale of any Shares only the Prospectus (as it may be supplemented or amended from time-to-time) and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares at to be offered and sold only in such jurisdictions where the public Dealer Manager and the respective Dealer are licensed to do so. In addition, the Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company where the offering prices per share and sale of its Shares have been authorized by appropriate regulatory authorities and such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as determined additional states are added. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in accordance with the Prospectusany other jurisdiction.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT II, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT II, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s 's right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Offering ParticipantsNational Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"). The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager may not sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers except to institutional investors approved by the Company at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 6.0% (or 7.0% where the purchaser elects to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or pay a portion deferred commission) of the selling commissions may be reallowed by gross proceeds of the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who Shares sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully plus a dealer manager fee in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan amount of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.752.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablesold. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. d. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. e. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices price per share set forth in the Prospectus (except as determined otherwise provided in accordance with the dividend reinvestment plan). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Shares may be sold to (x) executive officers and directors of the Company and their immediate family members, (y) officers and employees of Dividend Capital Advisors LLC (the "Advisor") or other affiliates and their immediate family members, and (z) if approved by the Board of Directors of the Company, joint venture partners, consultants and other service providers, at a discount which, as provided in the "Plan of Distribution" section of the Prospectus, reflects a reduction in (i) the dealer manager fee and/or (ii) the selling commissions otherwise payable with respect to such Shares. Also as provided in the "Plan of Distribution" section of the Prospectus, (i) the Dealer Manager or any Broker may reduce the amount of its selling commission on sales of $500,000 or more of Shares to certain purchasers in order to provide a reduction to the total purchase price for such Shares and (ii) the Dealer Manager may reduce the amount of its dealer manager fee and its selling commission on, and the Advisor may reduce the organizational and offering expense reimbursements with respect to, sales of 300,000 or more Shares to certain purchasers in order to provide a reduction to the total purchase price for such Shares.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Trust Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 29,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may not sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers except to institutional investors approved by the Company at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.5% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were Shares sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. d. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. e. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at a price of $10 per share. Notwithstanding the public offering prices per share foregoing, Shares may be sold to executive officers, directors, employees and affiliates of Dividend Capital Advisors LLC (the "Advisor") at a discount which, as determined provided in accordance with the "Plan of Distribution" section of the Prospectus, reflects a reduction in (i) the acquisition and advisory fees payable to the Advisor, (ii) the dealer manager fee and/or (iii) the selling commissions otherwise payable with respect to such Shares. Also as provided in the "Plan of Distribution" section of the Prospectus, the Dealer Manager or any Broker may reduce the amount of its selling commission on sales of 50,000 or more Shares to any purchaser in order to provide a reduction to the total purchase price for such Shares.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Trust Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Company and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Selected Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the Dealer Manager’s participation in USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the distribution “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the Shares International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the Offering, including with respect to its engagement offering and sale of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersthe Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340 and 2310 (including the obligations with respect to disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and marketability of prior programs pursuant to FINRA Rule 2310(b)(3)(D)), 2111and NASD Rules 2420, 23102740, 5110 and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee requirements with respect to sales of Class S its and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described each Selected Dealer’s participation in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all any resales or a portion transfers of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur resale or transfer of the following: (i) a listing Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Class I shares, (ii) Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the merger or consolidation account of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusjurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Offered Shares only the Prospectus and provide the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments prospective investors if accompanied or reimbursements made preceded by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesProspectus, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.Section 1.1
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (VII Peaks-KBR Co-Optivist Income BDC II, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (VII Peaks-KBR Co-Optivist Income BDC II, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $3,500,000,000 in any combination of W Shares, A Shares and I Shares (or such other amount as the Company allocates to the public up to the maximum amount primary Offering of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily second paragraph of this Agreement), through financial intermediaries including dealers selected to participate in the distribution of Shares in the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes who have executed Selected Dealer Agreements with the Dealer Manager (each, a “Dealer” and, collectively, the “Dealers”), all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)SEC rules, and the rules USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably designed to detect and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to cause the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public only in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. 3.3 Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary up to 3.75% of the gross offering price paid per A Share by investors in the primary Offering, which is inclusive of such selling commissions (the “Offering Price”) (or up to 3.90% when expressed as a percentage of NAV per A Share, rather than the Offering Price); provided, however, that there shall be no selling commission on W Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary on I Shares, as described in Schedule 2 or on Shares sold pursuant to this Agreementthe Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. Selling commissions may be waived at the direction of the Dealer Manager. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion may reallow up to 100% of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer AgreementDealers.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the 3.4 The Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager an asset-based dealer manager fees fee that is payable in connection with sales of Class T Primary arrears on a monthly basis and accrues daily in an amount equal to (i) for W Shares and A Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement1/365th of 0.55% of the Company’s NAV for the applicable class for such day, and (ii) for I Shares, 1/365th of 0.25% of the Company’s NAV for I Shares for such day. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to At the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion Manager’s discretion, it may reallow up to 100% of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by fee received on the Dealer Manager Shares to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such DealerDealers. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowAdditionally, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing an asset-based distribution fee with respect to sales A Shares that is payable in arrears on a monthly basis and accrues daily in an amount equal to 1/365th of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing 0.50% of the Company’s NAV for A Shares for such day. At the Dealer Manager’s discretion, it may reallow up to 100% of the distribution fee and received on the A Shares to Dealers. If, for any reason, a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T sharessale is cancelled or rescinded, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee shall return to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related Company any fee paid to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record it with respect to such Class Tsale, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies including any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissionscommission, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash fee and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicabledistribution fee. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for to make payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionscommissions to such Dealers without incurring any liability therefor. In connection with the Offering, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition will not be entitled to the other items of receive underwriting compensation set forth (as defined in this Section 3, accordance with the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.applicable FINRA rules) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid aggregate dealer manager fees, distribution fees, selling commissions and all other forms of underwriting compensation received by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described and all Dealers exceeds 10% of the gross proceeds raised from the sale of Shares in the ProspectusOffering, excluding proceeds from the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan.
3.5 The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares, only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant agrees to be bound by the terms of an escrow agreement among UMB Bank, N.A., as escrow agent (the “Escrow Agent”), the Dealer Manager and provide the Company (the “Escrow Agreement”), in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesparties thereto, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as such agreement may be amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. . The Dealer Manager Parties represents acknowledges that the Company expects to reimburse its advisor for the full amount of all organization and warrants offering costs, without interest, in monthly installments, but the aggregate amount reimbursed can never exceed 0.75% of the aggregate gross offering proceeds, including shares issued in connection with the distribution reinvestment plan, but excluding selling commissions charged on A Shares sold in the primary offering. If, during any period, the total unreimbursed amount of such organization and offering costs exceeds the reimbursement limit described above, the excess will be eligible for reimbursement in subsequent periods up to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” limit, calculated on an accumulated basis, until reimbursed in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingfull.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Real Estate Income Strategy (Daily Nav), Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Real Estate Income Strategy (Daily Nav), Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 135,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.5% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were Shares sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Wells Real Estate Investment Trust Inc), Dealer Manager Distribution Agreement (Wells Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 3,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members in good standing of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA; (ii) it will at all times maintain and employ an adequate number administrative personnel (who shall be acceptable to the Company) to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and any supplemental or successor agreement and shall be solely responsible for the compensation of such personnel. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereunder are consummated or this Agreement becomes effective or is terminated for any reason, except as set forth below, the Company will pay (directly or by reimbursement) all costs and expenses incurred in good standing connection with the offering, including (a) all costs, fees and expenses (other than certain legal fees of FINRA your counsel and that other out-of-pocket expenses incurred by you, as provided below) incurred in connection with the performance of the Company's obligations hereunder, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification of the Shares for sale pursuant the securities or “blue sky” laws and regulations of any state and the preparation, printing, filing and distribution of the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements thereto, all in such quantities as you, on behalf of the Dealers, may reasonably require; (b) all costs, fees and expenses of the Company's counsel, independent public accountants, and transfer agent(s); all transfer taxes, if any, with respect to transfer, sale and delivery of the Shares, and printing of certificates representing any and all of the foregoing securities; and (c) your reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the Offering, promptly upon demand, including fees and expenses of your counsel; provided, however, that, without the consent of the Company, such payment or reimbursement of legal fees and expenses shall not exceed in the aggregate $30,000 and there shall be no reimbursement of other out-of-pocket expenses. The Company will be responsible for payment of such other costs incurred by it in connection with the Offering as shall be agreed between the Company and its the Dealer Manager. You and your employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Agreement and have established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with be bound by the applicable requirements terms of the Securities ActEscrow Agreement, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act a copy of 1934, which is attached as amended Exhibit “B” (the “Exchange ActEscrow Agreement”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statementthis agreement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect of up to sales 7% of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement gross proceeds of the Offering (the “Servicing Dealer Manager Fee”), before reallowance to participating broker-dealers. The Company Pursuant to separately negotiated agreements, the Dealer Manager may re-allow a portion of the Dealer Manager Fee in an aggregate amount not to exceed the maximum permitted under the FINRA and NASAA REIT Guidelines to broker-dealers participating in the distribution of the Offering. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will pay the Servicing Fee be paid to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in under this Section 3.e 3.3 unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including until the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect Shares sold are disbursed to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Company pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Escrow Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct authorization of payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for authorizing payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingTotal underwriting compensation, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of including the Dealer Manager by making direct payment Fee and underwriter expense reimbursement, if any, may not exceed the maximum amount allowed under the rules of commissionsFINRA. As additional compensation, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf Dealer Manager will receive options in accordance with a certain Underwriters Warrant, and 20,000 shares of shares of Common Stock which shall be restricted from resale for one year from the effective date of the Dealer Manager without incurring registration statement. To comply with FINRA Rule 5110(g)(1), for a period of six months after the issuance date of the compensation warrants (which shall not be earlier than the closing date of the offering pursuant to which the compensation warrants are being issued), neither the compensation warrants nor any liabilitywarrant shares issued upon exercise of the compensation warrants shall be (A) sold, transferred, assigned, pledged, or hypothecated, or (B) the subject of any hedging, short sale, derivative, put, or call transaction that would result in the effective economic disposition of the securities by any person for a period of 180 days immediately following the date of effectiveness or commencement of sales of the offering pursuant to which the compensation warrants are being issued, except the transfer of any security as permitted by the FINRA rules.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that that, to the best of its knowledge, the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectusProspectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states. See
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Klein Retail Centers, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Klein Retail Centers, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $2,975,000,000 in Shares (or such other amount as the Company allocates to the public up to the maximum amount primary Offering of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectusfirst paragraph of this Agreement) primarily through the dealers selected to participate in the distribution of Shares in the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes who have executed Selected Dealer Agreements with the Dealer Manager (each, a “Dealer” and, collectively, the “Dealers”), all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)SEC rules, and the rules USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably designed to detect and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to cause the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the 3.2 The Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public only in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold and 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold, plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public; provided, however, that there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Shares under the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a monthly distribution and stockholder servicing fee with respect that will accrue daily in an amount equal to sales 1/365th of 0.8% of the Company’s per share NAV of Class S T Shares sold, excluding Class T Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the distribution and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who Shares sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer Offering at the earliest of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, on behalf of the Company, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager commissions and distribution and stockholder servicing fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect by a stockholder within his or her individual account would be equal to 7.0% of the stockholder’s total gross investment amount at the time of the purchase of the primary Class T shares held within in such account would exceed, in account; (ii) the aggregate, 8.75date on which the aggregate underwriting compensation from all sources equals 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of Shares, excluding Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan; (iii) the fifth anniversary of the last day of the month in which the Offering (excluding the offering of shares pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan offering) terminates; (iv) the date such primary Class T share is no longer outstanding; and (v) the date the Company effects a liquidity event. The distribution and stockholder servicing fee relates to the share or shares (including sold. Payments to the gross proceeds Dealer Manager shall be made by the end of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto)week following the week in which Shares are sold by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by the Dealer Manager. Notwithstanding the foregoing, orthe Dealer Manager will reallow all of the selling commissions to Dealers. The Dealer Manager also may reallow all or a portion of the dealer manager fee and the distribution and stockholder servicing fee to Dealers; provided, solely however, that with respect to Class T sharesany individual investment, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager will not re-allow the related distribution and stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer if such Dealer ceases to hold the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which account related to such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareinvestment. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving not reallow the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares distribution and Class D shares in connection stockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer has not executed a Participating Dealer Agreement with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager or if the Dealer’s previously executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager is terminated. In any instance in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementwhich the Dealer Manager does not re-allow the distribution and stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect Dealer Manager will return such fee to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by . If, for any reason, a sale is cancelled or rescinded, the Dealer Manager shall return to the Company during the term of a particular Offeringselling commission, the dealer manager fee and not issued pursuant the distribution and stockholder servicing fee paid to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation it with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablesale. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for to make payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions to such Dealers without incurring any liability therefore.
3.4 The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares, only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.5 The Dealer Manager acknowledges that the Company may reimburse its advisor for underwriting expenses not covered by the selling commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation fee and distribution and stockholder servicing fee set forth in this Section 33.3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, but only to the extent that the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by total of such reimbursements for underwriting expenses and the Company or selling commissions, dealer manager fee and distribution and stockholder servicing fee set forth in Section 3.3 is no more than 10.0% of the Adviser, as applicable, and to gross offering proceeds of the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described Shares sold in the ProspectusOffering, excluding proceeds from the distribution reinvestment plan. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, In no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause event will total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts underwriting compensation exceed 10.0% of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to of the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” Shares sold in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to Offering, excluding proceeds from the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingdistribution reinvestment plan.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Office & Industrial REIT (CCIT II), Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Office & Industrial REIT (CCIT II), Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D S Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule Section 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class T, Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly quarterly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer Dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Selected Dealer Agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month quarter in which it Dealer is not eligible on the last day of the monthquarter; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month quarter for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T shareT, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account share would exceed, in the aggregate, exceed 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares share (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such monthtime as such threshold has been reached, such Class T shareT, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesT, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange assets, or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T sharesT, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership BX REIT Advisors L.L.C. (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant Dealer as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, defined under NASAA Guidelines (as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), in Section 4.a. below) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 82,500,000 Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change commissions in the broker-dealer amount of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757.0% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 3.0% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely Shares sold to the public. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Shares sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicabledistribution reinvestment plan. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer manager is a duly incorporated and validly existing corporation under the laws of the State of California.
3.7 No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.8 There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.9 The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.10 The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.11 Except for Participating Dealer Agreements, no agreement will be made by the Dealer Manager with any person permitting the resale, repurchase or distribution of any Shares purchased by such person.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Gc Net Lease Reit, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Gc Net Lease Reit, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $3.15 billion in Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Dealer Manager Agreement. With respect The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution terms of the Shares in the OfferingEscrow Agreement executed by and among UMB Bank, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersN.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager, at the time of the sale of Shares pursuant to the primary offering, selling commissions in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the primary offering, and the Company and Xxxxxxx-American Healthcare REIT IV Advisor, LLC (the “Advisor”) agree that they will pay to the Dealer Manager, at the time of the sale of Shares pursuant to the primary offering, an aggregate dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold in the primary offering, of which 1.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold in the primary offering will be funded by the Company and 2.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold in the primary offering will be funded by the Advisor. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a quarterly stockholder servicing fee in the aggregate amount of up to 4.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the primary offering, which stockholder servicing fee will accrue daily in an amount equal to 1/365th of 1.0% of the purchase price per share (or, once reported by the Company, the amount of the Company’s estimated net asset value per share) of Shares sold, excluding Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who Shares sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer Offering at the earliest of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account date at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75aggregate underwriting compensation from all sources equals 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of Shares in the primary portion of the Offering, (i.e., excluding proceeds from sales pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan); (ii) the fourth anniversary of the last day of the fiscal quarter in which the Offering (excluding the distribution reinvestment plan offering) terminates; (iii) the date that such primary Share is redeemed or is no longer outstanding; and (iv) the occurrence of a merger of the Company, listing of the Shares on a national securities exchange, or an extraordinary transaction by the Company. The stockholder servicing fee relates to the share or shares (including sold. The Dealer Manager may, in its discretion, re-allow to Dealers up to 100% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under stockholder servicing fee for services that such Dealers perform in connection with the DRIP with respect thereto)Shares; provided, orhowever, solely that with respect to Class T sharesany individual investment, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and will not re-allow the applicable related stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer in effect on if such Dealer ceases to hold the date upon which account related to such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareinvestment. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving not re-allow the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesstockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer has not executed a Participating Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager or if the Dealer’s previously executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager is terminated. In any instance in which the Dealer Manager does not re-allow the stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection the Dealer Manager will return such fee to the Company. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with an Offering (i.e., respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) distribution reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the date following the completion of such Offering on whichforegoing, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling no commissions, dealer manager fees, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until $2,000,000 in Shares have been sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager and its Dealers (the “Minimum Offering”). Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, proceeds from the sale of Shares will be held in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementescrow and, if the portion Minimum Offering is not obtained, will be returned to the investors in accordance with the terms of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect Prospectus. In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares the Dealer Manager and Class D shares of any Dealers participating in the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, including, but not limited to, selling commissions and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, the dealer manager fees fee (which includes expense reimbursements and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth non-cash compensation), exceed 10.0% of gross offering proceeds in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableaggregate. The Company and the Advisor will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager is a duly organized and validly existing limited liability company under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Dealer Manager is not in violation of its Operating Agreement.
3.7 No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.8 There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.9 The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.10 The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.11 Except for Participating Dealer Agreements, no agreement will be made by the Dealer Manager with any person permitting the resale, repurchase or distribution of any Shares purchased by such person.
3.12 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares or the Company, nor will they use the name of said escrow agent in any manner whatsoever in connection with the offer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgement that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 230,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules, and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Offeringterms of the Escrow Agreement executed as of [ ], including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2008 among [ ], as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with and the applicable requirements Company, a copy of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange ActEscrow Agreement”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales selling commissions in the amount of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold plus a dealer stockholder servicing manager fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion amount of 2.0% of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold gross proceeds of the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceShares sold; provided, however, that upon there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Shares under the date when Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager is notified that under this Section 3.3 unless or until the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion gross proceeds of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect Shares sold are disbursed to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect Company pursuant to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all paragraph [3] of the conditions Escrow Agreement. Until the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable and as defined in its applicable agreement for the receipt of Escrow Agreement) is obtained, investments will be held in escrow and, if the Servicing FeeRequired Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable) is not obtained, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement investments will be returned to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares, only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust III, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Retail Income Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Corporation and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Corporation and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Corporation hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Broker-Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell procure subscribers for the Offered Shares primarily through during the Offering Participants Period. It is expressly understood between the Dealer Manager and the Adviser that the Dealer Manager may cooperate with respect to the offering and sale of the Offered Shares with other broker dealers who are registered as broker dealers with the SEC, members of FINRA and duly licensed by the appropriate regulatory agency of each jurisdiction in which they will conduct offers and sales of the Offered Shares, or with broker dealers exempt from all such registration requirements. Such other Participating Broker-Dealers may be retained by the Dealer Manager as brokers on said terms and conditions set forth identical or similar to this Agreement and shall receive such rates of compensation as are agreed to between the Dealer Manager and the respective other Participating Broker-Dealers and as are in accordance with the terms of the Registration Statement.
4.2 The Dealer Manager represents to the Corporation that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives are properly registered and licensed as required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation to act under this Agreement, and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Corporation, to provide an annual certification to the Corporation that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.3 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Broker-Dealer in the Prospectus offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation, any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with all the applicable requirements under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, conduct rules of FINRA or its predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (specifically including, but not in any way limited to NASD Rule 2340, FINRA Rule 2310 (including the obligations with respect to each Offering disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 marketability of prior programs pursuant to this AgreementFINRA Rules 2310(b)(3)(D)) and 5141, and NASD Rule 2420 therein (each, as it may be amended from time to time), and any other applicable foreign, state or local securities or other laws or rules of FINRA or any other applicable self-regulatory agency in offering and selling the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any applicable requirements with respect to its and each Participating Broker-Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Broker-Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.4 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Corporation in any other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company Corporation that it is a member in good standing of FINRA will not use any sales literature not authorized and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to approved by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution Corporation or use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with members of the Shares public in connection with offers or sales or the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Offered Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will not make any recommendations cause the Participating Broker-Dealers to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager each agree, to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company Corporation at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the CompanyCorporation.
c. 4.5 [In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Corporation agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) Subject to volume discounts and other the special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. 4.5(b) below, the Company Corporation will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S shares and Class D shares (the “Servicing Fee”) and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect the Dealer Manager may permit Participating Broker-Dealers to Class T sharescharge transaction or other fees, including upfront placement fees or brokerage commissions, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”)Agreement. The Company Corporation will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may [will reallow all or a portion portion] of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Participating Broker-Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S shares or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement with such Participating Broker-Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Participating Broker-Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise subject to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of the Prospectus, at such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon time as the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Participating Broker-Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S shares or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S shares or Class D Shares shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer Participating Broker-Dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealerthe Participating Broker-Dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S shares and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall ceasecease in, and such the Participating Broker-Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for for, that month or any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; providedthereof (i.e., however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record Servicing Fees are payable with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, an entire month without any proration). Participating Broker-Dealer transfers will be made effective as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion start of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion first business day of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of recorda month. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S shares and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Participating Broker-Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may will also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. (b) The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissionstransaction or other fees, dealer manager including any upfront placement fees or brokerage commissions charged by the Participating Broker-Dealers, and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held by such stockholder within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP our distribution reinvestment plan with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, each such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (shall automatically and without any shares issued under action on the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will part of the holder thereof convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) ), each with an equivalent aggregate NAV net asset value per share as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an the Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I sharesliquidity event, or (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such the Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager feesany upfront placement fees or brokerage commissions charged by Participating Broker-Dealers, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Offered Shares sold in such the Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the CompanyCorporation’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company Corporation during the term of a particular the Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offeringoffering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular the Offering and not with respect to any other Offeringoffering.
g. 4.6 The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Participating Broker-Dealer or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company Corporation will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Participating Broker-Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Participating-Broker Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Companyabove, the Company Corporation, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Escrow Agent or such other agent appointed by it, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing such Participating Broker-Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3liability therefor. Further, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties is not responsible for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectusany transaction or other fees, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid including upfront placement fees or brokerage commissions, charged by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRAParticipating Broker Dealers.]
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 4.7 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Corporation, the Adviser and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company Corporation by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
k. 4.8 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Corporation and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Adviser that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Corporation, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Corporation, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said Escrow Agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Owl Rock Technology Income Corp.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Owl Rock Technology Income Corp.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Corporation and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Corporation and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Corporation hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Broker-Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell procure subscribers for the Offered Shares primarily through during the Offering Participants Period. It is expressly understood between the Dealer Manager and the Adviser that the Dealer Manager may cooperate with respect to the offering and sale of the Offered Shares with other broker dealers who are registered as broker dealers with the SEC, members of FINRA and duly licensed by the appropriate regulatory agency of each jurisdiction in which they will conduct offers and sales of the Offered Shares, or with broker dealers exempt from all such registration requirements. Such other participating broker dealers may be retained by the Dealer Manager as brokers on said terms and conditions set forth identical or similar to this Agreement and shall receive such rates of compensation as are agreed to between the Dealer Manager and the respective other participating broker dealers and as are in accordance with the terms of the Registration Statement.
4.2 The Dealer Manager represents to the Corporation that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives are properly registered and licensed as required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation to act under this Agreement, and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Corporation, to provide an annual certification to the Corporation that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.3 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Broker-Dealer in the Prospectus offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation, any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with all the applicable requirements under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, conduct rules of FINRA or its predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (specifically including, but not in any way limited to NASD Rule 2340, FINRA Rule 2310 (including the obligations with respect to each Offering disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 marketability of prior programs pursuant to this AgreementFINRA Rules 2310(b)(3)(D)) and 5141, and NASD Rule 2420 therein (each, as it may be amended from time to time), and any other applicable foreign, state or local securities or other laws or rules of FINRA or any other applicable self-regulatory agency in offering and selling the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager represents agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA comply and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including shall comply with any applicable requirements with respect to its engagement of one and each Participating Broker-Dealer’s participation in any resales or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements transfers of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Offered Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Broker-Dealer will cease receiving fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.4 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesOffered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, Class S shares and Class D shares in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Corporation in any other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Corporation that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Corporation or use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with members of the public in connection with an offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will cause the Participating Broker-Dealers to each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Corporation at any time and to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Corporation.
4.5 In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Corporation agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) except as described in the Prospectus, upfront selling commissions and dealer manager fees applicable to the total public offering price of Offered Shares of up to 5.0% of the price per share from the sale of Offered Shares.The sales load includes up to 3.0% of the price per share for up-front selling commissions (the “Up-Front Selling Commissions”) and up to 2.0% of the price per share for dealer manager fees (the “Dealer Manager Fees” and, together with the Up-Front Selling Commissions, the “Selling Commissions”) . For these purposes, a “sale of Offered Shares” shall occur following the release from escrow of the Minimum Offering (i.e.proceeds, and, if and only if, a transaction has closed with a securities purchased pursuant to all applicable offering and subscription documents, and the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon Corporation has thereafter distributed the earlier Upfront Selling Commission to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources Dealer Manager in connection with such Offeringtransaction. See Schedule 1 of the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement for further details regarding the Selling Commissions.; and
4.6 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Corporation that, including to the extent required by a Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement with a Participating Broker-Dealer, Dealer Manager or its affiliates will pay such Participating Broker-Dealer:
(a) additional selling commissions, commissions (the “Additional Selling Commissions,”) of up to 1.0% of the net asset value per share per year of Offered Shares sold; and
(b) a dealer manager fees, concession (the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal “Dealer Manager Concession”) at the time of such sale of up to ten percent (10%) 3.0% of the gross proceeds received from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the allocated sale of Offered Shares. No Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing Concession will be payable to Participating Broker-Dealer with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect Offered Shares sold to any other Offering“benefit plan investor” as that term is defined in ERISA § 3(42), 29 U.S.C. § 1003(42).
g. 4.7 The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company Corporation will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Broker-Dealer for direct payment of commissions, Selling Commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee Additional Selling Commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Broker-Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions all such of Selling Commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee Additional Selling Commissions to Offering Participants and Servicing Participating Broker-Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Companyabove, the Company Corporation, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Escrow Agent or such other agent appointed by it, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees Selling Commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Participating Broker-Dealers on behalf of without incurring any liability therefor. The Selling Commissions and Additional Selling Commissions payable to the Dealer Manager without incurring with respect to any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered promptly following the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as stockholders by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRACorporation.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 4.8 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Corporation, the Adviser and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company Corporation by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
k. 4.9 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Corporation and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Adviser that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Corporation, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Corporation, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said Escrow Agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Owl Rock Capital Corp II), Dealer Manager Agreement (Owl Rock Capital Corp II)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Fund (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Fund are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
5.1 The Fund hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor to solicit and to cause Participating Broker-Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of selling for cash Offered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, and otherwise upon the public up to the maximum amount of Shares other terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocationin, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through , Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement and the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Investor Application, and the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell procure subscribers for the Offered Shares. It is expressly understood between the Dealer Manager and the Fund that the Adviser and Dealer Manager may cooperate with respect to the offering and sale of the Offered Shares primarily through with other broker dealers who are registered as broker dealers with the Offering Participants SEC, members of FINRA and duly licensed by the appropriate regulatory agency of each jurisdiction in which they will conduct offers and sales of the Offered Shares, or with broker dealers exempt from all such registration requirements. Such other participating broker dealers may be retained by the Dealer Manager as brokers on said terms and conditions set forth identical or similar to this Agreement and shall receive such rates of compensation as are agreed to between the Dealer Manager and the respective other participating broker dealers and as are in accordance with the Prospectus with respect terms of the Registration Statement.
5.2 The Dealer Manager represents to each Offering the Fund that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives are properly registered and licensed as required by any additional terms applicable law, rule, or conditions specified in Schedule 2 regulation to act under this Agreement, and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Fund, to provide an annual certification to the Fund that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
5.3 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Broker-Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation, any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with all the applicable requirements under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, conduct rules of FINRA or its predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (specifically including, but not in any way limited to FINRA Rules 2040, 2231, 2341 and 5141 therein (each, as may be amended from time to time), and any other applicable foreign, state or local securities or other laws or rules of FINRA or any other applicable self-regulatory agency in offering and selling the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any applicable requirements with respect to its and each Participating Broker-Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Offered Shares. Such compliance includes submitting initial filings and all subsequent responses required through FINRA’s Public Offering System on behalf of the Fund. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Broker-Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
5.4 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. The Dealer Manager shall ensure that no Offered Shares are offered or sold for the account of the Fund in any other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company Fund that it is a member in good standing of FINRA will not use any sales literature not authorized and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to approved by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution Fund or use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with members of the Shares public in connection with offers or sales or the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Offered Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will not make any recommendations cause the Participating Broker-Dealers to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager each agree, to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company Fund at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the CompanyFund.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under 5.5 In consideration for the caption “Plan of Distribution” in services rendered by the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeDealer Manager, the Company Fund agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions the compensation set forth in connection Exhibit 2 with sales respect to (i) a sale of Class T Primary SharesOffered Shares by a Participating Broker-Dealer through a Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement; and (ii) a purchase of Offered Shares by a client of a selected investment advisor (the “SIA”) through a Selected Investment Advisor Agreement (the “Selected Investment Advisor Agreement”), Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, attached as described in Schedule 2 Exhibit 3 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to In accordance with the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee distribution and/or service fees, upfront selling commissions (the “Up-Front Selling Commissions”) and dealer manager fees (the “Dealer Manager Fees” and, together with the Up-Front Selling Commissions, the “Selling Commissions”) to (a) any Dealers who sold Participating Broker-Dealers. For these purposes, a “sale of Offered Shares” shall occur following the Class Trelease from escrow of the Offering proceeds, Class S or Class D shares giving rise and, if and only if, a transaction has closed with securities purchased pursuant to a portion all applicable offering and subscription documents, and the Fund has thereafter distributed the Selling Commission to the Dealer Manager in connection with such transaction. See Schedule 1 of such Servicing Fee the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement for further details regarding the Selling Commissions. Any amounts of Selling Commissions not reallowed to the extent provided in the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement shall be retained by the Dealer Manager. The Dealer Manager is responsible for making reallowance payments to Participating Broker-Dealers. The Fund may sell shares directly in its sole discretion and no compensation shall be payable or owing to the Dealer Manager in connection with such direct sales. In connection with purchases of shares pursuant to our distribution reinvestment plan or direct sales as described in the Plan of Distribution, the Up-Front Selling Commissions and Dealer provides for such a reallowance Manager Fees will not be paid.
5.6 The Dealer Manager represents and such Dealer is in compliance with warrants to the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowanceFund that, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent required by a Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, Dealer Manager or its affiliates will compensate such Participating Broker-Dealer in accordance with the agreement between Fund’s Prospectus and the applicable Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement.
5.7 The Fund shall pay the Dealer Manager, or among through the Dealer Manager, the brokerParticipating Broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA Dealers, for due diligence or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made review fees charged in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books conducting due diligence required to carry out responsibilities under this Amended and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Restated Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Manager Agreement or similar agreement with the Participating Broker-Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) Fund shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties Participating Broker-Dealers for reasonable bona fide out-of-pocket due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or such Participating Broker-Dealer. Such due diligence expenses may include reasonable travel, lodging, meals and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described Participating Broker-Dealer and their personnel when visiting the Fund’s offices to verify information relating to the Fund or Offered Shares. The Fund shall also reimburse the Dealer Manager for filing fees in connection with FINRA filings made on behalf of the ProspectusFund. The Dealer Manager or any Participating Broker-Dealer shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company Fund a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence or filing expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein .
5.8 In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the contraryDealer Manager and any Participating Broker-Dealer participating in the Offering, no payments or reimbursements made including, but not limited to, Dealer Manager Fee and the Selling Commissions, exceed such amount permitted by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesFINRA Rule 2341, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Associationamended, Inc. (as amended modified or supplemented from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. 5.9 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Fund and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company Fund by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
k. 5.10 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions warrants to the Fund that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Fund, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares or the Fund, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of said Escrow Agent in any manner whatsoever in connection with the offer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
5.11 The Dealer Manager shall provide to the Fund timely copies of all correspondence with FINRA (through FINRA’s Public Offering System, email or other forms of communication) on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the ProspectusFund.
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Samples: Distribution Agreement (Eagle Point Enhanced Income Trust), Dealer Manager Agreement (Eagle Point Institutional Income Fund)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Corporation and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Corporation and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Corporation hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Selected Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company Corporation that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the Dealer Manager’s participation in USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the distribution “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the Shares International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the Offering, including with respect to its engagement offering and sale of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersthe Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Corporation, to provide an annual certification to the Corporation that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340 and 2310 (including the obligations with respect to disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and marketability of prior programs pursuant to FINRA Rule 2310(b)(3)(D)), 2111and NASD Rules 2420, 23102740, 5110 and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee requirements with respect to sales of Class S its and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described each Selected Dealer’s participation in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all any resales or a portion transfers of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur resale or transfer of the following: (i) a listing Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Class I shares, (ii) Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the merger or consolidation account of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets Corporation in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusjurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Offered Shares only the Prospectus and provide the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments prospective investors if accompanied or reimbursements made preceded by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesProspectus, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.Section 1.1
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp II), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Investment Corp II)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Company and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, (i) by any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with such Selected Dealer and (ii) by any RIA that the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderDealer Manager may retain pursuant to an executed Selected Investment Adviser’s Agreement with such RIA . The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the Dealer Manager’s participation in USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the distribution “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the Shares International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the Offering, including with respect to its engagement offering and sale of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersthe Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 2310 (including the obligations with respect to disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and marketability of prior programs pursuant to FINRA Rules 2310(b)(3)(D)) and 5141, and NASD Rules 2340 and 2420 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date its and each Selected Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such OfferingOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager Parties agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Offering Participants shall commence the offering resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Offering for cash to the public Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares are registered has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or qualified sold for sale or the account of the Company in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will cause the Selected Dealers to each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject 4.4 In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager:
(a) a dealer manager fee in the amount of up to 3.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Offered Shares (the “Dealer Manager Fee”), a portion of which may be reallowed to Selected Dealers (as described more fully in the Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with such Selected Dealer), up to an aggregate maximum of 1.5% of the gross proceeds of the Offered Shares sold, which reallowance, if any, shall be determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the number of shares sold by such Selected Dealer, the assistance of such Selected Dealer in marketing the Offering and due diligence expenses incurred, and the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to selected broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Offering Period; provided, however, that the Dealer Manager Fee may be reduced in connection with certain sales by investment advisory representatives affiliated with a Selected Dealer who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the investor, and no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Offered Shares by an officer, trustee or employee of the Company, the Adviser or their respective affiliates; and
(b) subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Offered Shares sold, which commissions may be amended, restated reallowed in whole or supplemented from time to time, subject in part to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Selected Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Offered Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to commissions, as described more fully in the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceDealer; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations commissions described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to clause (b) shall be payable in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% purchase of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the followingOffered Shares: (i) through an investment advisory representative affiliated with a listing of Class I shares, Selected Dealer who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the investor; (ii) the merger by a Selected Dealer (or consolidation such Selected Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of the Company with such Selected Dealer (or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Companysuch Selected Dealer’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange registered representative), or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on whichby an officer, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares trustee or employee of the Company’s common stock issued by , the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other OfferingAdviser or their respective affiliates.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. 4.5 The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Selected Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees commissions or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Selected Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Selected Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, in its sole discretion, either directly or through the Company Escrow Agent or such other agent appointed by it, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Selected Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered promptly following the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as defined under shareholders by the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany.
j. 4.6 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Adviser and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 4.7 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Adviser that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Company, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said Xxxxxx Agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Energy & Power Fund II), Dealer Manager Agreement (FS Energy & Power Fund II)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Company and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement, and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of foreign Assets Control regulations and programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2. With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, current FINRA Rules 20402340 and 5140 and current NASD Rule 2420, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date its and each Participating Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such OfferingOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager Parties agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Offering Participants shall commence the offering resale or transfer of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered Offered Shares, it and each Participating Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or qualified for sale Commission Rules or in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3. The Dealer Manager Parties shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other states. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus, as defined by Section 1.1 of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will cause the Participating Dealers to each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject 4.4. In consideration for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager in connection with the sale of the Class A Offered Shares:
(a) a dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Class A Offered Shares (the “Dealer Manager Fee”), which may be re-allowed to Participating Dealers (as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with such Participating Dealer), which reallowance, if any, shall be determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the number of shares sold by such Participating Dealer, the assistance of such Participating Dealer in marketing the Offering and due diligence expenses incurred, and the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to selected broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Offering Period; provided, however, that no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Class Offered Shares by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Adviser or their respective affiliates; and
(b) subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion 7.0% of the selling gross proceeds of the Class A Offered Shares sold, which commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager in whole or in part to the Dealers Participating Dealer who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Offered Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Participating Dealer. The ; provided, however, that no commissions described in this clause (b) shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Class A Offered Shares: (i) through an investment advisory representative affiliated with a Participating Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to who is paid on a fee-for-service basis by the Company for failure investor; (ii) by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement(or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of such Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), or (iii) by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Adviser or their respective affiliates.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under 4.5. In consideration for the caption “Plan of Distribution” in services rendered by the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to timeDealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales the sale of the Class T Primary Shares, as Offered Shares the fees described in the Prospectus and as reflected on Schedule 2 1 hereto, which schedule shall be added by amendment to this AgreementAgreement at such time as the Company is authorized by Commission Rule to offer and sell the Class T Offered Shares.
4.6. The applicable dealer manager fees payable Pursuant to the rules of FINRA, the maximum compensation paid to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company or to members of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully FINRA participating in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager this Offering shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75exceed 10% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableOffered Shares. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees commissions or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Participating Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company in its sole discretion may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Participating Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered substantially concurrently with the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as defined under stockholders by the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany.
j. 4.7. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Adviser and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under regarding the caption “Plan of Distribution” Offering in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Triton Pacific Investment Corporation, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Triton Pacific Investment Corporation, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell sell, and cause the Dealers to sell, the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply comply, and ensure that the Dealers comply, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. .
b. The Dealer Manager will not make shall comply, and require in the Selected Dealer Agreement that the Dealers comply, with (a) the privacy standards and requirements of the GLB Act; (b) the privacy standards and requirements of any recommendations other applicable federal or state law; and (c) its own internal privacy policies and procedures, each as may be amended from time to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interesttime.
b. As soon as practicable c. Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D S Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. e. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. f. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f3.g. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional advisor stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer Dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Selected Dealer Agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month quarter in which it Dealer is not eligible on the last day of the monthquarter; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month quarter for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. g. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T shareshares, Class S share or shares and Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and shares held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account Shares would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% (or, solely in the case of Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Selected Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer) of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares Shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T shareshares, Class S share or shares and Class D share shares (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareShares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which the Company’s stockholders receive cash and/or securities or shares listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. h. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. i. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership or Starwood REIT Advisors, L.L.C. (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. j. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h3.i., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant Dealer as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, defined under NASAA Guidelines (as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), in Section 4.a. below) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. k. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. l. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 250,000,000 Shares (or such other amount as the Company allocates to the public up to the maximum amount primary Offering of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectusfirst paragraph of this Agreement) primarily through the dealers selected to participate in the distribution of Shares in the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes who have executed Selected Dealer Agreements with the Dealer Manager (each, a “Dealer” and, collectively, the “Dealers”), all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)SEC rules, and the rules USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably designed to detect and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to cause the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public only in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold plus a stockholder servicing dealer manager fee with respect to in the amount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold; provided, however, that there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (Shares under the “Servicing Fee”)Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will pay the Servicing Fee Payments to the Dealer Manager monthly shall be made by the end of the week following the week in arrearswhich Shares are sold by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by the Dealer Manager. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Dealer Manager will reallow all of the selling commissions to Dealers. The Dealer Manager also may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee dealer manager fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class TDealers. If, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA reason, a sale is cancelled or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Managerrescinded, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that shall return to the Dealer who sold Company the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise selling commission and the dealer manager fee paid to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record it with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablesale. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for to make payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Shares, only the Prospectus and provide such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.5 The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the terms of an escrow agreement among UMB Bank, N.A., as escrow agent (the “Escrow Agent”), the Dealer Manager and the Company (the “Escrow Agreement”), in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesparties thereto, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as such agreement may be amended from time to time. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.3 above, no commissions, payments or amounts whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager unless or until the gross proceeds of the Shares sold have reached the minimum offering amount set forth in the Prospectus (the “NASAA GuidelinesMinimum Offering”), ) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants are disbursed to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished pursuant to the Company by Escrow Agreement. Until the Dealer Manager Parties Minimum Offering is reached, investments will be held in writing expressly for use escrow. If the Minimum Offering is not obtained within the time periods specified in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit investments will be returned to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined investors in accordance with the Prospectus. Furthermore, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.3 above, no commissions, payments or amounts whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager with respect to sales of Shares to Pennsylvania residents unless or until the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the Offering (including sales made to residents of other jurisdictions) have reached a minimum of $125,000,000 (the “Pennsylvania Minimum Offering”) and are disbursed to the Company pursuant to the Escrow Agreement. Until the Pennsylvania Minimum Offering is reached, investments from Pennsylvania residents will be held in escrow. If the Pennsylvania Minimum Offering is not obtained, Pennsylvania residents may request a return of their funds in accordance with the Prospectus. Similarly, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.3 above, no commissions, payments or amounts whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager with respect to sales of Shares to residents of any other state that has imposed a minimum offering amount higher than the Minimum Offering (a “State-Required Minimum Offering”) unless or until the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the Offering (including sales made to residents of other jurisdictions) have reached a minimum of the applicable State-Required Minimum Offering and are disbursed to the Company pursuant to the Escrow Agreement. Until the applicable State-Required Minimum Offering is reached, investments from residents of that state will be held in escrow. If the applicable State-Required Minimum Offering is not obtained prior to the termination of the Offering, the investments from residents of that state will be promptly returned to them in accordance with the Escrow Agreement.
3.6 The Dealer Manager acknowledges that the Company expects to reimburse its advisor an amount equal to approximately 1.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the Offering, excluding proceeds from the distribution reinvestment plan, for underwriting expenses not covered by the selling commissions and dealer manager fee set forth in Section 3.3. In no event will such payments exceed an amount equal to 1.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the Offering, excluding proceeds from the distribution reinvestment plan, and in no event will total underwriting compensation exceed 10.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the Offering, excluding proceeds from the distribution reinvestment plan.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Office & Industrial REIT (CCIT II), Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Office & Industrial REIT (CCIT II), Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 29,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may not sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers except to institutional investors approved by the Company at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.5% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were Shares sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. d. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. e. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices a price of $10 per share (except as determined otherwise provided in accordance with the dividend reinvestment plan). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Shares may be sold to executive officers, directors, employees and affiliates of Dividend Capital Advisors LLC (the "Advisor") at a discount which, as provided in the "Plan of Distribution" section of the Prospectus, reflects a reduction in (i) the acquisition and advisory fees payable to the Advisor, (ii) the dealer manager fee and/or (iii) the selling commissions otherwise payable with respect to such Shares. Also as provided in the "Plan of Distribution" section of the Prospectus, the Dealer Manager or any Broker may reduce the amount of its selling commission on sales of 50,000 or more Shares to any purchaser in order to provide a reduction to the total purchase price for such Shares.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Trust Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 250,000,000 Shares through Dealers. The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it (i) the Dealer Manager is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it FINRA; (ii) the Dealer Manager and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, ; and (iii) the Dealer Manager agrees to comply has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in all material respects accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Actlaw, the Rules and Regulationsincluding applicable FINRA rules, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)SEC rules, and the rules USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to cause the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales selling commissions in the amount of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold plus a dealer stockholder servicing manager fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion amount of 2.0% of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold gross proceeds of the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceShares sold; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on under the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicabledistribution reinvestment plan. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares, only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectusstates.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust III, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust III, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to an aggregate maximum purchase price of $2,500,000,000 in Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members in good standing of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients, customers and employees (and certain family members of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates), subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2. Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement3.3. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, as compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold in the primary offering, all of which may be amendedreallowed to Dealers, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold to the limitations set forth public in Section 3.fthe primary offering, a portion of which may be paid by the Dealer Manager to Dealers as a marketing fee. belowIn addition, the Dealer Manager may pay, out of a portion of its dealer manager fee, reimbursements of distribution and marketing-related costs and expenses, such as costs associated with attending or sponsoring conferences, technology costs, and other distribution and marketing-related costs and expenses of the Dealer. The Company further agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold in the primary offering, all of which may be reallowed to Dealers, plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.75% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold to the public in the primary offering, all or a portion of which may be paid by the Dealer Manager to Dealers as a marketing fee. In addition, the Dealer Manager may pay, out of a portion of its dealer manager fee, reimbursements of distribution and marketing-related costs and expenses, such as costs associated with attending or sponsoring conferences, technology costs, and other distribution and marketing-related costs and expenses of the Dealer. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a distribution and stockholder servicing fee in an annual amount equal to 1.0% of the gross offering price of the Class T Shares sold in the primary offering (or, if the Company is no longer offering primary shares, the then-current net asset value if such a value has been publicly disclosed by the Company), which will accrue daily and be payable quarterly in arrears. No selling commissions, dealer manager fees or distribution and stockholder servicing fees shall be paid to the Dealer Manager or the Dealers with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee pursuant to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrearsCompany’s distribution reinvestment plan. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee distribution and stockholder servicing fees to (a) any Dealers the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares T Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee distribution and stockholder servicing fees, to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides provided for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with reallowance. Notwithstanding the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowanceforegoing, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when if the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the such Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares T Shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing FeeT Shares, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees distribution and stockholder servicing fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, T Shares shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee distribution and stockholder servicing fees for any portion of the month quarter in which it such Dealer is not eligible the broker-dealer of record on the last day of the monthquarter; provided, however, if there is a the change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the such Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, T Shares is made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the such Class T, Class S or Class D shares T Shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration re-registration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the such Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees distribution and stockholder servicing fees related to the such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, T Shares for the portion of the month quarter for which the such Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees distribution and stockholder servicing fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicableT Shares, if any any, if such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer that provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of Company will cease paying the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance distribution and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee stockholder servicing fees with respect to any particular Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased Share sold in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect offering on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier earliest to occur of the following: (i) a listing of the Class I shares, A Shares on a national securities exchange; (ii) the a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or assets; (iii) the date following end of the completion of such Offering on which, month in which the Dealer Manager determines that total underwriting compensation paid in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from primary offering including the distribution and stockholder servicing fee paid on all sources Class T Shares sold in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, primary offering is equal to ten percent (10%) 10.0% of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing primary offering from the sale of both Class A Shares and Class T Shares; and (iv) the end of the month in which the underwriting compensation paid in the primary offering including the distribution and stockholder servicing fee paid with respect to publicly registered the Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares Shares held by a stockholder within his or her particular account equals 10.0% of the Company’s common stock issued by gross offering price at the time of investment of the Class T Shares held in such account. The Company may also reimburse the Dealer Manager, which may in turn reimburse the Dealers for bona fide out of pocket itemized and detailed due diligence expenses. For these purposes, Shares shall be deemed to be “sold” if and only if a transaction has closed with a subscriber for Shares pursuant to all applicable offering and subscription documents, the Company during has accepted the term subscription agreement of a particular Offeringsuch subscriber, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableShares have been fully paid for. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, commissions or reimbursements to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager commissions, fees or the Servicing Fee and reimbursements to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees payments to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus3.4. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto Authorized Sales Materials does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares. The Dealer Manager further represents and warrants to the Company that it shall promptly (a) notify the Dealers of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus or Authorized Sales Materials, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in (b) supply the Shares on behalf Dealers with reasonable quantities of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus, any Authorized Sales Materials and any supplements or amendments thereto, to the extent provided to the Dealer Manager by the Company.
3.6. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the terms of the Amended and Restated Escrow Agreement executed as of December 12, 2014, by and among UMB Bank, N.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager and the Company.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Global Reit Ii, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Global Reit Ii, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 45,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that the NASD; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, SEC rules, and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Offeringterms of the Escrow Agreement executed as of _______________ ____, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2005, among Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with and the applicable requirements Company, a copy of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange Act”"Escrow Agreement"), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion 7.0% of the selling commissions may be reallowed by gross proceeds of the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who Shares sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully plus a dealer manager fee in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan amount of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion 1.5% of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section gross proceeds of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceShares sold; provided, however, that upon there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Shares under the date when Company's distribution reinvestment plan and no selling commissions will be paid for sales of shares through investment advisory representatives. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager is notified that under this Section 3.3 unless or until the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion gross proceeds of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect Shares sold are disbursed to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect Company pursuant to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all paragraph 3 of the conditions Escrow Agreement. Until the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable and as defined in its the Escrow Agreement) is obtained, investments will be held in escrow and, if the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable agreement for and as defined in the receipt of the Servicing FeeEscrow Agreement) is not obtained, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement investments will be returned to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust II Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust II Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $1.5 billion in Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA standing, and that (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Dealer Manager Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the Dealer Manager’s participation in USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the distribution “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the Shares International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the Offering, including with respect to its engagement offering and sale of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersthe Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
3.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Dealer in the offer and sale of the offered Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Participating Dealer Agreement, each Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141Rules. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject its and each Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager to compliance agrees, and each Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with Regulation Best Interestthe resale or transfer of the offered Shares, it and each Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
b. As soon as practicable 3.3 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject 3.4 Except as otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, as compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager sales commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public (subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus), which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the limitations set forth in Section 3.fpublic. belowNo selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will pay be paid to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S under this Section 3.4 unless or until $2,500,000 in Shares have been sold by the Dealer Manager and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement its Dealers (the “Servicing FeeMinimum Offering”). The Company Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, proceeds from the sale of Shares will pay be held in escrow and, if the Servicing Fee Minimum Offering is not obtained, will be returned to the investors in accordance with the terms of the Prospectus. In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) and any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change participating in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class TOffering, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in selling commissions and the form of ownership of the accountdealer manager fee (which includes expense reimbursements and non-cash compensation), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion exceed 10.0% of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, gross offering proceeds in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. 3.5 The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.6 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.7 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.8 The Dealer Manager is a duly incorporated and validly existing corporation under the laws of the State of California.
3.9 The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound to the terms of the Escrow Agreement executed by and among UMB Bank, N.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager and the Company.
3.10 No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.11 There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.12 The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.13 The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.14 Except for Participating Dealer Agreements, no agreement will be made by the Dealer Manager with any person permitting the resale, repurchase or distribution of any Shares purchased by such person.
3.15 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares or the Company, nor will they use the name of said escrow agent in any manner whatsoever in connection with the offer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgement that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Griffin-Benefit Street Partners BDC Corp.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Griffin-Benefit Street Partners BDC Corp.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $1,500,000,000 in Shares (or such other amount as the Company allocates to the public up to the maximum amount primary Offering of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectusfirst paragraph of this Agreement) primarily through the dealers selected to participate in the distribution of Shares in the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes who have executed Selected Dealer Agreements with the Dealer Manager (each, a “Dealer” and, collectively, the “Dealers”), all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)SEC rules, and the rules USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably designed to detect and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to cause the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141Company.
3.2. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public only in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement3.3. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold and 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold, plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public; provided, however, that there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Shares under the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a monthly distribution and stockholder servicing fee with respect that will be calculated on a daily basis in an amount equal to sales 1/365th of 1.0% of the Company’s per share NAV of Class S T Shares sold, excluding Class T Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the distribution and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who Shares sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer Offering at the earliest of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, on behalf of the Company, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager distribution and stockholder servicing fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect by a stockholder within his or her individual account would be equal to 4.0% of the stockholder’s total gross investment amount at the time of the purchase of the primary Class T shares held within in such account would exceedaccount, in or a lower limit agreed upon between the aggregate, 8.75Dealer Manager and the Dealer at the time such Class T shares were sold; (ii) the date on which the aggregate underwriting compensation from all sources equals 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of Shares, excluding Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan; (iii) the fourth anniversary of the last day of the month in which the Offering (excluding the offering of shares pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan offering) terminates; (iv) the date such primary Class T share is no longer outstanding; and (v) the date the Company effects a liquidity event. The distribution and stockholder servicing fee relates to the share or shares (including sold. Payments to the gross proceeds Dealer Manager shall be made by the end of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto)week following the week in which Shares are sold by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by the Dealer Manager. Notwithstanding the foregoing, orthe Dealer Manager will reallow all of the selling commissions to Dealers. The Dealer Manager also may reallow all or a portion of the dealer manager fee and the distribution and stockholder servicing fee to Dealers; provided, solely however, that with respect to Class T sharesany individual investment, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager will not re-allow the related distribution and stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer if such Dealer ceases to hold the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which account related to such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareinvestment. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving not reallow the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares distribution and Class D shares in connection stockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer has not executed a Selected Dealer Agreement with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager or if the Dealer’s previously executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager is terminated. In any instance in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementwhich the Dealer Manager does not re-allow the distribution and stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect Dealer Manager will return such fee to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by . If, for any reason, a sale is cancelled or rescinded, the Dealer Manager shall return to the Company during the term of a particular Offeringselling commission, the dealer manager fee and not issued pursuant the distribution and stockholder servicing fee paid to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation it with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablesale. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for to make payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus3.4. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Shares, only the Prospectus and provide to the Company a detailed such sales literature and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany.
j. 3.5. The Dealer Manager Parties represents acknowledges that the Company may reimburse its advisor for underwriting expenses not covered by the selling commissions, dealer manager fee and warrants distribution and stockholder servicing fee set forth in Section 3.3, but only to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement extent that the information under total of such reimbursements for underwriting expenses and the caption “Plan selling commissions, dealer manager fee and distribution and stockholder servicing fee set forth in Section 3.3 is no more than 10.0% of Distribution” the gross offering proceeds of the Shares sold in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to Offering, excluding proceeds from the Company by distribution reinvestment plan. In no event will total underwriting compensation exceed 10.0% of the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the Registration StatementOffering, any preliminary prospectus, excluding proceeds from the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleadingdistribution reinvestment plan.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust V, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust V, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 100,000,000 Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the 3.2 The Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of offer the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permittedpermitted as set forth on Schedule 2.4 from time to time. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject 3.3 The Company agrees to volume discounts pay all costs and other special circumstances described in expenses incident to the Offering, whether or otherwise provided in not the transactions contemplated hereunder are consummated or this Dealer Manager Agreement and under is terminated. As compensation for the caption “Plan of Distribution” in services rendered by the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeDealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described the compensation set forth in Schedule 2 A hereto. No selling commissions, dealer manager fees or other compensation shall be paid with respect to this AgreementShares sold pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. The applicable selling commissions payable to Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and may reallow all or a portion of the any selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and and/or all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by to any Dealers. In no event shall the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change participating in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class TOffering, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, the dealer manager fees fee, underwriting expense reimbursements and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceednon-cash compensation, exceed 10.0% of gross offering proceeds in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager is a duly incorporated and validly existing corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Dealer Manager is not in violation of its Certificate of Incorporation or its Bylaws.
3.7 No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.8 There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.9 The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.10 The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.11 Except for any Participating Dealer Agreements, no agreement will be made by the Dealer Manager with any person permitting the resale, repurchase or distribution of any Shares purchased by such person. 4.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Rw Holdings NNN Reit, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Rw Holdings NNN Reit, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company Partnership hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares Units as set forth in the Prospectus Memorandum through Dealers, all of whom shall be (subject i) members of FINRA and shall be duly registered as a broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and under the laws of each state and/or, to the Company’s right of reallocationextent required, as described the equivalent thereof in any other jurisdiction or (ii) duly registered under the Prospectus) primarily through laws and, to the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes extent required, in any applicable non-U.S. jurisdiction to conduct the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth activity contemplated hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants Units on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus Memorandum with respect to each the Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 1 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company Partnership that it is duly registered as a broker-dealer pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and in all applicable U.S. states, and is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. Further, if the foregoing representation ceases to be correct at any time during the Dealer Manager’s engagement hereunder, the Dealer Manager shall notify the Investment Manager and the Partnership. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares Units in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Memorandum, the Securities Act, the Rules rules and Regulationsregulations promulgated thereunder, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of SharesUnits, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect. For the avoidance of doubt, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The the Dealer Manager will not make take any recommendations action that: (i) constitutes a public offering of or for the Units within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act or general solicitation of prospective investors in the Partnership within the meaning of Regulation D promulgated thereunder; (ii) causes the offering of the Units to retail investors that would subject lose any exemption from registration with the Dealer Manager Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act; or (iii) causes the Partnership to compliance with Regulation Best Interestlose its exemption under Section 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date date of the Registration Statementthis Agreement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares Units in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares Units are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares Units upon request of the Company Partnership at any time and will resume offering the Shares Units upon subsequent request of the CompanyPartnership.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise Except as may be provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the ProspectusMemorandum, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all Partnership or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company its affiliates will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder unitholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares Units (the “Servicing Fee”) and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect the Dealer Manager may permit Dealers to Class T sharescharge upfront selling commissions, placement fees, subscription fees or similar fees (“Subscription Fees”), all as described in Schedule 2 1 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”)Agreement. The Company Partnership or its affiliates will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Units giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise subject to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of the Memorandum, at such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that time as the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Units giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares Units or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer Dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Selected Dealer Agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D sharesUnits, as applicable, shall ceasecease in, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for for, that month or any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; providedthereof (i.e., however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record Servicing Fees are payable with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, an entire month without any proration). Broker-dealer transfers will be made effective as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion start of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion first business day of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of recorda month. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D sharesUnits, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I sharesUnits. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares Units (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. d. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company Partnership will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any the reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the CompanyPartnership, the Company Partnership or its affiliates may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability. Further, the Partnership and the Dealer Manager are not responsible for any Subscription Fee charged by Dealers, the terms of which shall be set forth in the applicable Selected Dealer Agreement.
h. e. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company Partnership and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) Investment Manager, or its affiliates, shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the ProspectusMemorandum, to the extent the Prospectus Memorandum indicates that they will be paid by the Company Partnership or the AdviserInvestment Manager, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. f. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Partnership and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement its affiliates that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus Memorandum and all other information furnished to the Company Partnership by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the ProspectusMemorandum, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. g. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares Units at the public offering prices per share unit as determined in accordance with the ProspectusMemorandum.
h. Dealer Manager agrees to promptly notify the Partnership, General Partner and the Investment Manager in the event that any of the representations and warranties set forth herein becomes materially inaccurate, or in the event that any covenant or condition on their part to be performed or satisfied has been breached or not satisfied in any material respect.
i. The Dealer Manager may delegate the performance of any obligation under this Agreement to the General Partner, its affiliate or an authorized agent of the Dealer Manager; for the avoidance of doubt, delegation of the performance of any obligation hereunder shall not relieve the Dealer Manager of any obligation under this Agreement.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Blackstone Infrastructure Strategies L.P.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Blackstone Private Equity Strategies Fund L.P.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of 220,000,000 Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients and customers and employees (and certain family members) of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Dealer Manager Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the The Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with be bound by the applicable requirements terms of the Securities ActAmended and Restated Escrow Agreement executed as of February 25, the Rules and Regulations2004, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934between Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as amended (the “Exchange Act”)escrow agent, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or 3.3 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection the amount of up to 6.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold (up to 4.0% for shares issued pursuant to our dividend reinvestment plan) plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.2% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public. No dealer manager fee shall be paid with sales of Class T Primary Sharesrespect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company's dividend reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Sharesno commissions, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary under this Section 3.3 unless or until 1,000,000 Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed have been sold by the Dealer Manager and its Dealers (the "Minimum Offering"). Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, proceeds from the sale of Shares will be held in escrow and, if the Minimum Offering is not obtained, will be returned to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. liability therefor. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3addition, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall or its advisor may reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced and other expenses relating to the Offering as described in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition including but not limited to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject of up to prevailing rules and regulations 0.5% of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. Dealer.
3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and all other approved by the Company or use any "broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only" materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will they use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc), Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of 352,631,579 Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members in good standing of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients, customers and employees (and certain family members of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates), subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2. Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement3.3. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 7.5% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the primary offering, of which up to 7.0% of gross offering proceeds of the Shares sold in the primary offering may be reallowed to Dealers, plus a stockholder servicing dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.5% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public in the primary offering, of which up to 1.5% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public in the primary offering may be paid by the Dealer Manager to Dealers. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect Shares sold pursuant to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”)Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. The Company may also reimburse the Dealer Manager, which may in turn reimburse the Dealers, up to a maximum of 0.5% of the gross proceeds raised in the primary Offering for bona fide out of pocket itemized and detailed due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amounts whatsoever will pay the Servicing Fee be paid to the Dealer Manager monthly under this Section 3.3 unless or until $2,000,000 in arrears. The Shares have been sold by the Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion and the Dealers to at least 100 subscribers who are independent of us and of each other before [ ], one year from the date of the Servicing Fee to Prospectus (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealerMinimum Offering”) giving rise or any higher amount of Shares, as may be required by various states as specified in the Prospectus or in any memorandum delivered to a portion of such Servicing Fee to you (“Higher Minimum Offering”). Until the extent the agreement between Minimum Offering or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected InstitutionHigher Minimum Offering, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are is obtained, proceeds from the sale of Shares will be held in compliance with escrow and, if the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S Minimum Offering or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D sharesHigher Minimum Offering, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; providedobtained, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect will be returned to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, commissions or reimbursements to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager commissions, fees or the Servicing Fee and reimbursements to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus3.4. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto Authorized Sales Materials does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares. The Dealer Manager further represents and warrants to the Company that it shall promptly (a) notify the Dealers of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus or Authorized Sales Materials, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in (b) supply the Shares on behalf Dealers with reasonable quantities of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus, any Authorized Sales Materials and any supplements or amendments thereto, to the extent provided to the Dealer Manager by the Company.
3.6. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the terms of the Escrow Agreement executed as of ___, 2009, by UMB Bank, N.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager and the Company.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Global REIT, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Global REIT, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to an aggregate maximum purchase price of $2,500,000,000 in Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members in good standing of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients, customers and employees (and certain family members of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates), subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2. Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence Dealers commenced the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement3.3. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, as compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold in the primary offering, all of which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time reallowed to time, subject Dealers. The Company further agrees that it will pay to the limitations set forth Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold in the primary offering, all of which may be reallowed to Dealers. No selling commissions will be paid to the Dealer Manager with respect to the sale of Class I Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager shall be paid a dealer manager fee in the amount of up to 3.0% gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold to the public in the primary offering (the “Class A Dealer Manager Fee”). The Company agrees that it will pay a portion of the Class A Dealer Manager Fee in an amount equal to up to 1.5% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold to the public in the primary offering and the Advisor agrees that it will pay a portion of the Class A Dealer Manager Fee in an amount equal to up to 1.5% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold to the public in the primary offering; provided, that, if the Class A Dealer Manager Fee payable to the Dealer Manager with respect to a sale of Class A Shares is equal to or less than an amount equal to 1.5% of the gross proceeds of the sale of such Class A Shares due to waivers or other discounts described in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, the Advisor shall pay the entire Class A Dealer Manager Fee, if any, and the Company shall not pay any portion of the Class A Dealer Manager Fee. The Dealer Manager shall be paid a dealer manager fee in the amount up to 2.75% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold to the public in the primary offering (the “Class T Dealer Manager Fee”). The Company agrees that it will pay a portion of the Class T Dealer Manager Free in an amount equal to 1.25% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold to the public in the primary offering and the Advisor agrees that it will pay a portion of the Class T Dealer Manager Fee in an amount equal to 1.5% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold to the public in the primary offering. Further, the Dealer Manager shall be paid a dealer manager fee in the amount of 1.5% of the gross proceeds of the Class I Shares sold to the public in the primary offering (“Class I Dealer Manager Fee” and, together with the Class A Dealer Manager Fee and the Class T Dealer Manager Fee, the “Dealer Manager Fee”). The Advisor agrees to pay all of the Class I Dealer Manager Fees payable to the Dealer Manager. The Company, the Dealer Manager and the Advisor agree that the Advisor’s obligation to pay a portion of the Dealer Manager Fees pursuant to this Section 3.f3.3 shall apply only to sales of Shares completed on or after August 2, 2016. belowFurther, the Advisor agrees and acknowledges that the Company shall not reimburse the Advisor for the Advisor’s payment of any portion of the Dealer Manger Fees pursuant to this Section 3.3. All or a portion of the Dealer Manager Fee may be paid by the Dealer Manager to Dealers as a marketing fee. In addition, the Dealer Manager may pay, out of a portion of the Dealer Manager Fee, reimbursements of distribution and marketing-related costs and expenses, such as costs associated with attending or sponsoring conferences, technology costs, and other distribution and marketing-related costs and expenses of the Dealer. In addition, the Dealer Manager may pay, out of a portion of its Dealer Manager Fee, reimbursements of distribution and marketing-related costs and expenses, such as costs associated with attending or sponsoring conferences, technology costs, and other distribution and marketing-related costs and expenses of the Dealer.
3.4. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a distribution and stockholder servicing fee in an annual amount equal to 1.0% of the gross offering price of the Class T Shares and 0.25% of the gross offering price of Class I Shares sold in the primary offering (or, if the Company is no longer offering primary shares, the then-current net asset value), which will accrue daily and be payable quarterly in arrears. No selling commissions, dealer manager fees or distribution and stockholder servicing fees shall be paid to the Dealer Manager or the Dealers with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee pursuant to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrearsCompany’s distribution reinvestment plan. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee distribution and stockholder servicing fees to (a) any Dealers the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S T Shares or Class D shares I Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee distribution and stockholder servicing fees, respectively, to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides provided for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with reallowance. Notwithstanding the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowanceforegoing, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when if the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the such Class TT Shares or such Class I Shares, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares respectively, is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S T Shares or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing FeeI Shares, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees distribution and stockholder servicing fees related to such Class T, T Shares or Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, I Shares shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee distribution and stockholder servicing fees for any portion of the month quarter in which it such Dealer is not eligible the broker-dealer of record on the last day of the monthquarter; provided, however, if there is a the change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the such Class T, Class S T Shares or Class D shares, as applicable, I Shares is made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the such Class T, Class S T Shares or Class D shares I Shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration re-registration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the such Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees distribution and stockholder servicing fees related to the such Class T, T Shares or Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicableI Shares respectively, for the portion of the month quarter for which the such Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees distribution and stockholder servicing fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the then-current broker-dealer of record of with respect to the Class T, T Shares or Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicableI Shares, if any any, if such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer that provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of Company will cease paying the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance distribution and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee stockholder servicing fees with respect to any particular Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased Share sold in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect offering on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier earliest to occur of the following: (i) a listing of the Class I shares, A Shares on a national securities exchange; (ii) the a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or assets; (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) end of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold month in such Offering, as determined in good faith by which the Dealer Manager determines that total underwriting compensation paid in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementthe primary offering, including, without limitation, the Advisor's payment of a portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth aggregate distribution and stockholder servicing fees, is equal to 10.0% of the gross proceeds of the primary offering; and (iv) the end of the month in which the underwriting compensation paid in the Participating Dealer Agreementprimary offering, any agreement including the Advisor's payment of a portion of the dealer manager fees and the distribution and stockholder servicing fees paid with respect to the Class T Shares, held by a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement stockholder within his or Servicing Agreement entered into with her particular account equals 10.0% of the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablegross offering price at the time of investment of the Class T Shares held in such account. The Company will cease paying the distribution and stockholder servicing fee with respect to any particular Class I Share on the earlier of: (i) a listing of the Class A Shares on a national securities exchange; (ii) a merger or consolidation of the company with or into another entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of our assets; (iii) the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager determines that total underwriting compensation paid in the primary offering, including, without limitation, our Advisor’s payment of the dealer manager fees and the aggregate distribution and stockholder servicing fees, is equal to 10.0% of the gross proceeds of the primary offering; and (iv) the end of the month in which aggregate distribution and stockholder servicing fees paid with respect to the Class I Shares held by a stockholder within his or her particular account equals 1.5% of the gross offering price at the time of investment of the Class I Shares held in such account. The Company may also reimburse the Dealer Manager, which may in turn reimburse the Dealers for bona fide out of pocket itemized and detailed due diligence expenses. For these purposes, Shares shall be deemed to be “sold” if and only if a transaction has closed with a subscriber for Shares pursuant to all applicable offering and subscription documents, the Company has accepted the subscription agreement of such subscriber, and such Shares have been fully paid for. The Company and the Advisor will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee reimbursements to such Offering Participant or Servicing any Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager commissions, fees or the Servicing Fee and reimbursements to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the CompanyCompany and the Advisor, respectively, the Company and the Advisor may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees payments to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus3.5. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto Authorized Sales Materials does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.6. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares. The Dealer Manager further represents and warrants to the Company that it shall promptly (a) notify the Dealers of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus or Authorized Sales Materials, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in (b) supply the Shares on behalf Dealers with reasonable quantities of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus, any Authorized Sales Materials and any supplements or amendments thereto, to the extent provided to the Dealer Manager by the Company.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Global Reit Ii, Inc.), Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Global Reit Ii, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of 220,000,000 Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients and customers and employees (and certain family members) of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Dealer Manager Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the The Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with be bound by the applicable requirements terms of the Securities ActAmended and Restated Escrow Agreement executed as of February 25, the Rules and Regulations2004, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934between Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as amended (the “Exchange Act”)escrow agent, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or 3.3 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection the amount of up to 6.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold (up to 4.0% for shares issued pursuant to our dividend reinvestment plan) plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.2% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public. No dealer manager fee shall be paid with sales of Class T Primary Sharesrespect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company's dividend reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Sharesno commissions, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary under this Section 3.3 unless or until 1,000,000 Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed have been sold by the Dealer Manager and its Dealers (the "Minimum Offering"). Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, proceeds from the sale of Shares will be held in escrow and, if the Minimum Offering is not obtained, will be returned to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company or its advisor may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. liability therefor. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3addition, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall or its advisor may reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced and other expenses relating to the Offering as described in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition including but not limited to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject of up to prevailing rules and regulations 0.5% of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. Dealer.
3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and all other approved by the Company or use any "broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only" materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will they use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 82,500,000 Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) (a successor entity to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”)). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change commissions in the broker-dealer amount of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757.0% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 3.0% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely Shares sold to the public. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Shares sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicabledistribution reinvestment plan. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. . In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3addition, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall may reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced in the Prospectus, and other expenses relating to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. .
3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the ProspectusShares.
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Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public primarily through the Dealers up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. .
b. The Dealer Manager will not make shall abide by and comply with (a) the privacy standards and requirements of the GLB Act; (b) the privacy standards and requirements of any recommendations other applicable federal or state law; and (c) its own internal privacy policies and procedures, each as may be amended from time to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interesttime.
b. As soon as practicable c. Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers s who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D S Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. e. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers s who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. f. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f3.g. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional advisor stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between Selected Registered Investment Adviser Agreement or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected Institution Agreement with such Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are broker of record/custodian is in compliance with the terms of such agreement Selected Registered Investment Adviser Agreement, Selected Institution Agreement or other Servicing Agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Participating Dealer Agreement, Selected Registered Investment Adviser Agreement or Selected Institution Agreement, as applicable, for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month quarter in which it is not eligible on the last day of the monthquarter; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month quarter for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer ManagerShares.
f. g. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. h. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIARegistered Investment Adviser Agreement, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. i. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership TH Real Estate Global Cities Advisors, LLC (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. j. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h3.i., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, defined under NASAA Guidelines (as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), in Section 4.a. below) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. k. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. l. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Nuveen Global Cities REIT, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 45,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that the NASD; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, SEC rules, and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Offeringterms of the Escrow Agreement executed as of June 2, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2005 among Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with and the applicable requirements Coxxxxx, a copy of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange Act”"Escrow Agreement"), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion 7.0% of the selling commissions may be reallowed by gross proceeds of the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who Shares sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully plus a dealer manager fee in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan amount of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion 1.5% of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section gross proceeds of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceShares sold; provided, however, that upon there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Shares under the date when Company's distribution reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager is notified that under this Section 3.3 unless or until the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion gross proceeds of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect Shares sold are disbursed to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect Company pursuant to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all paragraph 3 of the conditions Escrow Agreement. Until the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable and as defined in its the Escrow Agreement) is obtained, investments will be held in escrow and, if the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable agreement for and as defined in the receipt of the Servicing FeeEscrow Agreement) is not obtained, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement investments will be returned to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust II Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 45,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that the NASD; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, SEC rules, and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Offeringterms of the Escrow Agreement executed as of _______________ ____, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2005, among ______________, as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with and the applicable requirements Company, a copy of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange Act”"Escrow Agreement"), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion 7.0% of the selling commissions may be reallowed by gross proceeds of the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who Shares sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully plus a dealer manager fee in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan amount of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion 1.5% of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section gross proceeds of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceShares sold; provided, however, that upon there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Shares under the date when Company's dividend reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager is notified that under this Section 3.3 unless or until the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion gross proceeds of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect Shares sold are disbursed to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect Company pursuant to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all paragraph 3 of the conditions Escrow Agreement. Until the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable and as defined in its the Escrow Agreement) is obtained, investments will be held in escrow and, if the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable agreement for and as defined in the receipt of the Servicing FeeEscrow Agreement) is not obtained, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement investments will be returned to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Credit Property Trust II Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Operating Partnership (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor during the period (the “Offering Period”) commencing with the date hereof and ending on February 23, 2008 (the “Termination Date”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of selling for cash Offered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, and otherwise upon the public up to the maximum amount of Shares other terms and conditions set forth in in, the Prospectus (subject to and the Company’s right of reallocationSubscription Agreement, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of the NASD in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of the NASD in good standing of FINRA and that standings, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, Commission rules and regulations and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules Rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingNASD, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 21112420, 23102730, 5110 2740, and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date its and each Participating Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such OfferingOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager Parties agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Offering Participants shall commence the offering resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Dealer will fulfill the obligations pursuant to Sections 3(b) and 4(d) of Rule 2810 of the Rules of the NASD.
4.3 [Reserved.]
4.4 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Offering for cash to the public Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares are registered has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or qualified sold for sale or the account of the Company in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other states. The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and the Participating Dealers will each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under 4.5 In consideration for the caption “Plan of Distribution” in services rendered by the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeDealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions (a) a dealer manager fee in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary 2.5% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Shares, Class S Primary excluding DRIP Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to (the “Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary SharesFee”), Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions which Dealer Manager Fee may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager in whole or in part to the Dealers Participating Dealer who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, fee (as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus), which may reallowance, if any, shall be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to participating broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, Offering Period and (b) except as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the ProspectusProspectus concerning discounts based upon the volume of Offered Shares purchased, selling commissions in the amount of 7% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold and 4.0% of the DRIP Shares sold, which commissions may be amended, restated reallowed in whole or supplemented from time to time, subject in part to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Participating Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Offered Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to commissions, as described more fully in the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceDealer; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion no commissions under clause (b) shall be payable in respect of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer purchase of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Offered Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into by a Participating Dealer Agreement (or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of such Participating Dealer Agreement (or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholderParticipating Dealer’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect theretoregistered representative), oror by an officer, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share director or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all employee of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other OfferingAdvisor or their respective affiliates.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. 4.6 The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees commissions or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Participating Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Dealer Manager, the Company, either directly or through the Company Escrow Agent, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Participating Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered substantially concurrently with the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as stockholders by the Company.
4.7 If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Dealer Manager prior to the Termination Date pursuant to the first sentence of Section 11.1, for a particular Offering hereunder period from the date of termination through the date that is one (1) year from the date of termination, the Dealer Manager shall cause total organization and offering expensesbe paid: (a) the Dealer Manager Fee provided in Section 4.5(a) with respect to any Offered Shares which are sold through broker-dealers, or to prospective purchasers, listed on the Termination List (as defined under in Section 11.2); and (b) the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of selling commissions provided in Sections 4.5(b) with respect to any Offered Shares which are sold to prospective purchasers listed on the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingTermination List.
j. 4.8 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Operating Partnership and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 4.9 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Operating Partnership that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Company, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Paladin Realty Income Properties Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. 3.1 The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA FINRA; (ii) it will at all times maintain and that employ an adequate number of administrative personnel (who shall be acceptable to the Company) to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and any supplemental or successor agreement and shall be solely responsible for the compensation of such personnel; (iii) it will be responsible for payment of such other costs incurred by it in connection with the Offering as shall be agreed between the Company and the Dealer Manager, which costs shall not exceed the amounts received by the Dealer Manager as a dealer manager fee (discussed below); (iv) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (v) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs (“AML Program”) in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (“AML Program”), reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company; however, the Offering, including Company shall not rely on the AML Program of Dealer Manager with respect to its engagement customers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersDealers who acquire Shares, but will rely on the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements AML Program of each of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestrespective Dealers.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statementthis agreement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of up to 7.0% for Class A Shares up to 3.0% for Class S Shares and up to 3.0% for Class T Primary Shares of the gross offering proceeds for the Class A Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary SharesT Shares respectively, as described in Schedule 2 before re-allowance to this Agreementparticipating broker-dealers. The applicable Class S Shares are also subject to an annual Distribution and Shareholder Servicing fee of 1% payable for seven years after purchase, to be allocated 0.65% to the selling commissions representative, 0.20% to the participating broker dealer and 0.15% to the Advisor. Class T Shares are also subject to an Annual Distribution and Shareholder Servicing Fee of 1%, payable for four years after purchase. Pursuant to the Soliciting Dealer Agreements, the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company re-allow 100% of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the its selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the participating broker-dealer of record/custodian dealers. As compensation for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when Company will also pay the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise a dealer manager fee of up to a portion 2.5% of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect gross proceeds for Class A Shares and Class T Shares and up to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all 0.5% of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record gross proceeds for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, Shares but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change less in the form of ownership of aggregate than $7,000 per month after said re-allowances. Pursuant to separately negotiated agreements, Dealer Manager may pay to persons affiliated with the account), then the Company and/or its affiliates who are registered representatives and independent contractors with Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated Manager (the “Servicing DealerWholesalers”), commissions of up to 1.5% of gross offering proceeds and re-allow to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into Dealers, a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with marketing fee and due diligence expense reimbursement of up to 1.0% of gross offering proceeds which, in the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”)aggregate, such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with shall not exceed the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance maximum permitted under the FINRA and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related NASAA REIT Guidelines to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to participating in the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreementoffering. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) all items of compensation from whatever source, including compensation paid from offering proceeds in the Dealer Manager may waive form of the Annual Distribution and Shareholder Servicing Fee fees, payable to the extent Dealer underwriters, broker dealers, or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it affiliates thereof will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines exceed an amount that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% equals ten percent of the gross proceeds from of the sale of such primary shares offering (including excluding securities purchased through the Dividend Reinvestment Program). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth Shares sold are received in good funds by the Participating Dealer Agreement between Company. To the extent Dealer Manager instructs the transfer agent for the Company (the “Transfer Agent”) to re-allow and pay the applicable Dealer in effect on Dealers directly out of the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At proceeds the end of such monthREIT Offering, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer of the Dealers for direct payment of commissions, commissions to such Dealers. No sales commission or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they fee will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and with respect to Shares sold pursuant to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing Company’s dividend reinvestment plan and/or purchases of Shares made directly by clients of investment advisers. Total underwriting compensation, including sales commissions, the dealer manager fee and underwriter expense reimbursement may not exceed the maximum amount allowed under the rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Shares through Dealers only the Prospectus and provide such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.5 The Dealer Manager, through the Dealers, shall cause Shares to the Company a detailed be offered and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and such list of jurisdictions shall cause total organization be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and offering expenses, as defined under sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts account of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany in any other states.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of up to $2,200,000,000 in Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients and customers and employees (and certain family members) of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change selling commissions in the broker-dealer amount of record with respect up to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757.0% of the gross proceeds from of Shares sold to the sale public, plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.2% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under Shares sold to the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely public. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Shares sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicabledividend reinvestment plan. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the CompanyIn addition, the Company or its advisor may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced and other expenses relating to the Offering as described in the Prospectus, including but not limited to, reimbursement of up to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations 0.5% of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described in the ProspectusDealer. The Company shall have the right to require the Dealer Manager shall obtain from and any Offering Participant and Dealer to provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for as a condition to any such due diligence expensesreimbursement. Notwithstanding anything contained herein The Company may change these commissions and fees, in its discretion, at any time upon 30 days written notice to the contraryDealer Manager, no payments or reimbursements made by in which event the Company Dealer Manager shall so notify the Dealers of such change in accordance with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts terms of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingSelected Dealer Agreements.
j. 3.4 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that who signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto Authorized Sales Materials does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with the offer or sale of Shares. The Dealer Manager further represents and warrants to the Company that it shall promptly (i) notify the Dealers of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus or Authorized Sales Materials, and all other (ii) supply the Dealers with reasonable quantities of the Prospectus, any Authorized Sales Materials and any supplements or amendments thereto, to the extent provided to the Dealer Manager by the Company. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that, in connection with the sale of Shares to customers of the Dealer Manager in transactions pursuant to which the Dealer Manager rather than a Dealer is acting as the broker-dealers effecting transactions in dealer of record, it will deliver a copy of the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell Prospectus as provided to the Shares at Dealer Manager by the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance Company from time to time prior to or simultaneously with the Prospectusfirst solicitation of an offer to sell Shares to an investor in connection with the offer or sale of Shares.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public offering up to the a maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder100,000,000 DRP Shares. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timedistributorship. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect .
3.2 Commencing with DRP shares to be issued by the Dealer Manager’s participation Company in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects connection with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act2004 third quarter distribution to be paid in September 2004, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant Dealers shall offer the DRP Shares to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares current stockholders who elect or have previously elected to participate in the Offering for cash to DRP (the public “Participants”) in jurisdictions in which the DRP Shares are registered or qualified for sale sale, qualify for an applicable exemption from registration or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the DRP Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the DRP Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change selling commissions in the broker-dealer amount of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.755% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., raised pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableDRP. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Wells Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 220,000,000 Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Dealer Manager Agreement. With respect The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution terms of the Shares in the OfferingEscrow Agreement executed as of _______________, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers200__, by _________________, as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or 3.3 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection the amount of 6.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public. No dealer manager fee shall be paid with sales of Class T Primary Sharesrespect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company's dividend reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Sharesno commissions, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary under this Section 3.3 unless or until 2,500,000 Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed have been sold by the Dealer Manager and its Dealers (the "Minimum Offering"). Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, proceeds from the sale of Shares will be held in escrow and, if the Minimum Offering is not obtained, will be returned to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. liability therefor. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3addition, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall may reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced in the Prospectus, and other expenses relating to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. .
3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any "broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only" materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will they use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell sell, and cause the Dealers to sell, the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply comply, and ensure that the Dealers comply, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. .
b. The Dealer Manager will not make shall comply, and require in the Selected Dealer Agreement that the Dealers comply, with (a) the privacy standards and requirements of the GLB Act; (b) the privacy standards and requirements of any recommendations other applicable federal or state law; and (c) its own internal privacy policies and procedures, each as may be amended from time to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interesttime.
b. As soon as practicable c. Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary SharesT, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary SharesT, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary SharesT, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. e. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. f. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f3.g. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares Shares and an investment professional advisor stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T sharesShares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise subject to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of the Prospectus, at such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that time as the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer Dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Selected Dealer Agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or or Class D sharesShares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it Dealer is not eligible on the last day of the such month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker. Broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, transfers will be made effective as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion start of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion first business day of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of recorda month. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or or Class D sharesShares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I sharesShares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. g. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T shareShares, Class S share Shares or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and Shares held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account Shares would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% (or, solely in the case of Class T Shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Selected Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer) of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares Shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares Shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T shareShares, Class S share or Shares and Class D share Shares (and any shares Shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will shall automatically convert without any action on the part of the holder thereof into a number of Class I shares Shares (including any fractional sharesShares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareShares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesShares, Class S shares Shares and Class D shares Shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I sharesShares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which the Company’s stockholders receive cash and/or securities or shares listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of the primary portion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T sharesShares, Class S shares Shares and Class D shares Shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. h. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. i. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership or Starwood REIT Advisors, L.L.C. (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. j. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h3.i., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant Dealer as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, defined under NASAA Guidelines (as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), in Section 4.a. below) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. k. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. l. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $1.7 billion in Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestconditions.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2. Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary SharesManager, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in through the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with the Dealers, shall cause Dealers to agree to deliver to each prospective investor, prior to any submission by such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible prospective investor of a written offer to buy any Shares, a copy of the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer AgreementProspectus.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement3.3. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager, at the time of sale of Shares, sales commissions up to a maximum amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering. The Company and XXXX-Xxxxxxx REIT Advisor, LLC (the “Advisor”) agree that they will pay to the Dealer Manager an aggregate dealer manager fee up to a maximum amount of (i) 3.0% of gross proceeds of Class T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, 1.0% of which will be funded by the Company and up to 2.0% of which will be funded by the Advisor, and (ii) 1.5% of gross proceeds of Class I Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, all of which will be funded by the Advisor. To the extent that the dealer manager fee is less than 3.0% for any Class T Shares sold and less than 1.5% for any Class I Shares sold, such shares will have a corresponding reduction in the applicable purchase price. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a quarterly stockholder servicing fee with respect in the aggregate amount of up to sales a maximum of 4.0% of gross proceeds of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, which stockholder servicing fee and will accrue daily in an amount equal to 1/365th (1/366th during a dealer leap year) of 1.0% of the purchase price per Share of Class T Shares sold, excluding Class T Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described Shares held in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible particular account on the last day earlier of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of the Class I shares, T Shares on a national securities exchange; (ii) the a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or assets; (iii) after the date following termination of the completion primary portion of the Offering in which the initial Class T Shares in the account were sold, the end of the month in which total underwriting compensation paid in the primary portion of the Offering is not less than 10.0% of the gross proceeds of the primary portion of the Offering from the sale of Class T Shares and Class I Shares; and (iv) the end of the month in which the total stockholder servicing fees paid with respect to such Class T Shares purchased in the primary portion of the Offering on whichis not less than 4.0% (or a lower limit, provided that, in the aggregatecase of a lower limit, underwriting compensation from the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect at the time Class T Shares were first issued to such account sets forth the lower limit and the Dealer Manager advises the Company’s transfer agent of the lower limit in writing) of the gross offering price of those Class T Shares purchased in such Offering (excluding shares purchased through the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan). If the Company redeems a portion, but not all sources of the Class T Shares held in a stockholder’s account, the total stockholder servicing fee limit and amount of stockholder servicing fees previously paid will be prorated between the Class T Shares that were redeemed and those Class T Shares that were retained in the account. Likewise, if a portion of the Class T Shares in a stockholder’s account is sold or otherwise transferred in a secondary transaction, the total stockholder servicing fee limit and amount of stockholder servicing fees previously paid will be prorated between the Class T Shares that were transferred and the Class T Shares that were retained in the account. The stockholder servicing fee relates to the Class T Share or Shares sold. The Dealer Manager may, in its discretion, re-allow to Dealers up to 100% of the stockholder servicing fee for providing ongoing or regular account or portfolio maintenance for the stockholder, assisting with recordkeeping, assisting and processing distribution payments or providing other similar services as the stockholder may reasonably require in connection with such Offeringstockholder’s investment in Class T Shares; provided, including however, that with respect to any individual investment, the Dealer Manager will not re-allow the related stockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer ceases to be the broker-dealer of record related to such investment or fails to provide the aforementioned services. In addition, the Dealer Manager will not re-allow the stockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer has not executed a Participating Dealer Agreement or a servicing agreement with the Dealer Manager. In any instance in which the Dealer Manager does not re-allow the stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer, the Dealer Manager will return such fee to the Company. No selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal fee or stockholder servicing fee shall be paid with respect to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the Dealer Manager and any Dealers participating in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementthe Offering, including, but not limited to, selling commissions, the dealer manager fee and the stockholder servicing fee (which includes expense reimbursements and non-cash compensation), exceed 10.0% of aggregate gross offering proceeds from the sale of Shares in the primary portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company and the Advisor will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee stockholder servicing fees to such Offering Participant or Servicing any Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee such to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees of stockholder servicing fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus3.4. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales of the Shares.
3.6. The Dealer Manager is a duly organized and validly existing limited liability company under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Dealer Manager is not in violation of its operating agreement.
3.7. No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.8. There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Dealer Manager Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.9. The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.10. The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT III, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 330,000,000 Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.5% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were Shares sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Wells Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Company and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its non-exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and by any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Selected Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the Dealer Manager’s participation in USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the distribution “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the Shares International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the Offering, including with respect to its engagement offering and sale of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersthe Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 2111, 2310, 5110 2310 (including the obligations with respect to disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and marketability of prior programs pursuant to FINRA Rule 2310(b)(3)(D)) and 5141, and NASD Rule 2420 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee requirements with respect to sales of Class S its and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described each Selected Dealer’s participation in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all any resales or a portion transfers of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur resale or transfer of the following: (i) a listing Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Class I shares, (ii) Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the merger or consolidation account of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusjurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Offered Shares only the Prospectus and provide the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments prospective investors if accompanied or reimbursements made preceded by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesProspectus, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.Section 1.1
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (VII Peaks-KBR Co-Optivist Income BDC II, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. 3.1 The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA FINRA; (ii) it will at all times maintain and that employ an adequate number of administrative personnel (who shall be acceptable to the Company) to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and any supplemental or successor agreement and shall be solely responsible for the compensation of such personnel; (iii) it will be responsible for payment of such other costs incurred by it in connection with the Offering as shall be agreed between the Company and the Dealer Manager, which costs shall not exceed the amounts received by the Dealer Manager as a dealer manager fee (discussed below); (iv) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (v) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs (“AML Program”) in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (“AML Program”), reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company; however, the Offering, including Company shall not rely on the AML Program of Dealer Manager with respect to its engagement customers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersDealers who acquire Shares, but will rely on the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements AML Program of each of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestrespective Dealers.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statementthis agreement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Sharesup to 7.0% of the gross offering proceeds before re-allowance to participating broker-dealers. Pursuant to the Soliciting Dealer Agreements, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company re-allow 100% of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the its selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the participating broker-dealer of record/custodian dealers. As compensation for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when Company will also pay the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class Ta dealer manager fee of up to 3.0% of gross offering proceeds, Class S or Class D shares giving rise before re-allowance to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the participating broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (includingdealers, but not limited toless than $7,000 per month after said re-allowances. Pursuant to separately negotiated agreements, a reregistration due Dealer Manager will pay to a sale or a transfer or a change in persons affiliated with the form of ownership of the account), then the Company and/or its affiliates who are registered representatives and independent contractors with Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated Manager (the “Servicing DealerWholesalers”), commissions of up to 1.5% of gross offering proceeds and re-allow to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into Dealers, a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance marketing fee and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms due diligence expense reimbursement of such agreement related up to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.751.5% of the gross offering proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources will not exceed the maximum permitted under the FINRA and NASAA REIT Guidelines to broker-dealers participating in connection with such Offeringthe offering. Notwithstanding the foregoing, including selling no commissions, dealer manager fees, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until the gross proceeds from Primary of the Shares sold are received in such good funds by the Company. To the extent Dealer Manager instructs the transfer agent for the Company (the “Transfer Agent”) to re-allow and pay the Dealers directly out of the proceeds the REIT Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer of the Dealers for direct payment of commissions, commissions to such Dealers. No sales commission or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they fee will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and with respect to Shares sold pursuant to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing Company’s dividend reinvestment plan and/or purchases of Shares made directly by clients of investment advisers. Total underwriting compensation, including sales commissions, the dealer manager fee and underwriter expense reimbursement may not exceed the maximum amount allowed under the rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Shares through Dealers only the Prospectus and provide such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.5 The Dealer Manager, through the Dealers, shall cause Shares to the Company a detailed be offered and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and such list of jurisdictions shall cause total organization be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and offering expenses, as defined under sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts account of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingCompany in any other states.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of up to $3,500,000,000 in Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients and customers and employees (and certain family members) of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of up to 7.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold to the public by Dealers in Commission Sales, plus a stockholder servicing dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.2% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold to the public by Dealers in Commission Sales. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to Shares sold (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee pursuant to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowanceCompany’s dividend reinvestment plan, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing in Advisory Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableSales. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingIn addition, at the discretion of Xxxxx Advisors Limited Partnership, the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak ’s advisor (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall may reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced and other expenses relating to the Offering as described in the Prospectus, including but not limited to, reimbursement of up to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations 0.5% of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described Dealer. The Advisor shall reimburse the Dealer Manager for any marketing fees paid with respect to Advisory Fee Sales. The Advisor may also reimburse the Dealer Manager for reimbursements that the Dealer Manager makes to Dealers to defray marketing and other distribution related costs and expenses of the Dealers’ participation in the Prospectusoffering. The Advisor shall have the right to require the Dealer Manager shall obtain from and any Offering Participant and Dealer to provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for as a condition to any such due diligence expensesreimbursement. Notwithstanding anything contained herein The Company and the Advisor may change these commissions and fees, in their discretion, at any time upon 30 days written notice to the contraryDealer Manager, no payments or reimbursements made by in which event the Company Dealer Manager shall so notify the Dealers of such change in accordance with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts terms of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingSelected Dealer Agreements.
j. 3.4 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that who signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto Authorized Sales Materials does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with the offer or sale of Shares. The Dealer Manager further represents and warrants to the Company that it shall promptly (a) notify the Dealers of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus or Authorized Sales Materials, and all other (b) supply the Dealers with reasonable quantities of the Prospectus, any Authorized Sales Materials and any supplements or amendments thereto, to the extent provided to the Dealer Manager by the Company. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that, in connection with the sale of Shares to customers of the Dealer Manager in transactions pursuant to which the Dealer Manager rather than a Dealer is acting as the broker-dealers effecting transactions in dealer of record, it will deliver or make available a copy of the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell Prospectus as provided to the Shares at Dealer Manager by the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance Company from time to time prior to or simultaneously with the Prospectusfirst solicitation of an offer to sell Shares to an investor in connection with the offer or sale of Shares.
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Samples: Selected Dealer Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 500,000,000 Units through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the NASD. The Dealer Manager may also sell Units for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants Units on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution terms of the Shares in the OfferingBank Escrow Agreement executed as of December _________________, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2000 ("Escrow Agreement") by _________________ ("Bank"), as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunderCompany, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale a signed copy of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject which the Dealer Manager acknowledges has been furnished to compliance with Regulation Best Interestit by the Manager, and a conformed copy of which is attached to this Agreement and incorporated herein by this reference.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering Units for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares Units are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares Units upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares Units upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company 3.3 The Manager will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales a commission equal to 1% of Class T Primary Sharesthe aggregate gross proceeds generated from the sale of Units by the Dealer Manager. In addition, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Manager will reimburse the Dealer Manager will be for any commissions and expenses paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to selected dealers pursuant to Section IV of the Dealers who sold Selected Dealer Agreement. Without in any way limiting the Class T Primary Sharesforegoing, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling no commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not Fee or expense reimbursement will be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay paid to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees or any Dealer in connection with excess of the maximum permitted by NASD Rules of Conduct and applicable Guidelines pertaining to sales compensation in offerings of Class T Primary Sharesthis kind. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in under this Section 3.e 3.3 unless expressly agreed to in writing or until 1,500,000 Units have been sold by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on Dealers (the date upon which such Class T shares were sold"Minimum Offering"). At Until the end of such monthMinimum Offering is obtained, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) investments will be held in a stockholder’s the escrow account and, if the Minimum Offering is not obtained, will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant be returned to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets investors in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into accordance with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus and Escrow Agreement. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance and reimbursements of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee expenses to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Manager and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the Bank, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions under the Escrow Agreement, has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Shares on behalf Units, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of Offering Participantsthe Units or the Company, nor will offer and sell it use the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined name of said Bank in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Units other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of 48,000,000 Shares directly or through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the maximum amount National Association of Shares set forth in the Prospectus Securities Dealers, Inc. (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, NASD) or registered investment advisors who are paid no commission or as otherwise described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderprospectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that the NASD; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 or will require that its Dealers establish such programs, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Offeringterms of the escrow agreement executed as of _______________, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2005 among Citibank Texas, N.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with and the applicable requirements Company, a copy of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange ActEscrow Agreement”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and Prospectus plus a dealer stockholder servicing manager fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between “Plan of Distribution” Section of the Prospectus. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until subscriptions for the purchase of Shares have been accepted by the Company and the applicable Dealer in effect on gross proceeds of the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At Shares sold are disbursed to the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Company pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%paragraph 3(a) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by Escrow Agreement. Until the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this AgreementRequired Capital, the portion of New York Required Capital or the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares Pennsylvania Required Capital (as applicable and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth as defined in the Participating Dealer Escrow Agreement) is obtained, any agreement with a Selected RIAinvestments will be held in escrow and, Selected Institution Agreement if the Required Capital, the New York Required Capital or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing DealersPennsylvania Required Capital, as applicable, is not obtained, investments will be returned to the investors in accordance with the Prospectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionscommissions to such Dealers without incurring any liability therefor. With respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition agrees to reduce its commission and dealer manager fee to the other items percentage, if any, of underwriting compensation the gross proceeds of the Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items Plan of underwriting compensation referenced in Distribution” Section of the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company, each owner, director, officer and employee of the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus (as it may be supplemented or amended from time-to-time) and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in such jurisdictions where the Dealer Manager and the respective Dealer are licensed to do so. In addition, the Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and all sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company where the offering and sale of its Shares have been authorized by appropriate regulatory authorities and such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions jurisdiction.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT I, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $3,500,000,000 in Shares (or such other amount as the Company allocates to the public up to the maximum amount primary Offering of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectusfirst paragraph of this Agreement) primarily through the dealers selected to participate in the distribution of Shares in the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes who have executed Selected Dealer Agreements with the Dealer Manager (each, a “Dealer” and, collectively, the “Dealers”), all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)SEC rules, and the rules USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably designed to detect and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to cause the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2. Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public only in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement3.3. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class A Shares sold and 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold, plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public; provided, however, that there shall be no selling commissions and no dealer manager fees paid for sales of Shares under the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a monthly distribution and stockholder servicing fee with respect that will accrue daily in an amount equal to sales 1/365th of 0.8% of the purchase price per share (or, once reported by the Company, the amount of the Company’s NAV per share) of Class S T Shares sold, excluding Class T Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the distribution and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who Shares sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer Offering at the earliest of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account date at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75aggregate underwriting compensation from all sources equals 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of Class T Shares, excluding Class T Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan; (ii) the end of the month in which the transfer agent, on behalf of the Company, determines that total selling commissions and distribution and stockholder servicing fees paid by a stockholder within his or her individual account would be equal to 7.0% of the stockholder’s total gross investment amount at the time of the purchase of the primary Class T shares held in such primary account; (iii) the date such Class T share is no longer outstanding; (iv) the fifth anniversary of the last day of the month in which the Offering (excluding the offering of shares pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan) terminates; and (including v) the gross proceeds date the Company effects a liquidity event. The distribution and stockholder servicing fee relates to the share or shares sold. Payments to the Dealer Manager shall be made by the end of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto)week following the week in which Shares are sold by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by the Dealer Manager. Notwithstanding the foregoing, orthe Dealer Manager will reallow all of the selling commissions to Dealers. The Dealer Manager also may reallow all or a portion of the dealer manager fee and the distribution and stockholder servicing fee to Dealers; provided, solely however, that with respect to Class T sharesany individual investment, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager will not re-allow the related distribution and stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer if such Dealer ceases to hold the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which account related to such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareinvestment. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving not reallow the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares distribution and Class D shares in connection stockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer has not executed a Participating Dealer Agreement with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager or if the Dealer’s previously executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager is terminated. In any instance in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementwhich the Dealer Manager does not re-allow the distribution and stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect Dealer Manager will return such fee to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by . If, for any reason, a sale is cancelled or rescinded, the Dealer Manager shall return to the Company during the term of a particular Offeringselling commission, the dealer manager fee and not issued pursuant the distribution and stockholder servicing fee paid to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation it with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablesale. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for to make payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefore.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus3.4. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute, in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Shares, only the Prospectus and provide to the Company a detailed such sales literature and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company with respect Company.
3.5. The Dealer Manager agrees to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesbe bound by the terms of an escrow agreement among UMB Bank, N.A., as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. escrow agent (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA GuidelinesEscrow Agent”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties and the Company (the “Escrow Agreement”), in writing expressly for use in a form reasonably acceptable to the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.parties
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cole Office & Industrial REIT (CCIT III), Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Offering ParticipantsFinancial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager may not sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers except to institutional investors approved by the Company at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of the FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts The Dealer Manager and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement all Dealers will offer and under sell the caption “Plan of Distribution” Shares for cash at the Partnership’s offering price set forth in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change commissions in the broker-dealer amount of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.756.0% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.5% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were Shares sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingFurther, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced provided in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in section of the Prospectus and all other information furnished to Prospectus, the Company by Advisor may reimburse the non-accountable expenses of the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in and the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, Dealers and the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement Dealer Manager’s payment of a material fact or omit marketing support fee to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make Dealers, provided, however, that the statements therein not misleading.
k. The total amount of reimbursement of non-accountable expenses of the Dealer Manager Parties and the Dealers will not exceed 3.0% of gross offering proceeds and the aggregate of all Offering Participants, compensation payable to the Dealer Manager and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf Dealers will not exceed 10.0% of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public gross offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectusproceeds.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Total Realty Trust Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 88,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that the NASD; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with be bound by the applicable requirements terms of the Securities ActEscrow Agreement executed as of January ___, 2003 among Wells Fargo Bank Iowa, National Association, as escrow agent, the Rules Dealxx Xxnager and Regulationsthe Company, the Securities Exchange Act a copy of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange Act”"Escrow Agreement"), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.5% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto)Shares sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, orno commissions, solely with respect payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and under this Section 3.3 unless or until the applicable Dealer in effect on gross proceeds of the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At Shares sold are disbursed to the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Company pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%paragraph 3(a) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, Escrow Agreement. Until the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania/Nebraska Required Capital (as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares applicable and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth as defined in the Participating Dealer Escrow Agreement) is obtained, any agreement with a Selected RIAinvestments will be held in escrow and, Selected Institution Agreement if the Required Capital or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing DealersPennsylvania/Nebraska Required Capital, as applicable, is not obtained, investments will be returned to the investors in accordance with the Prospectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Reit I Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s 's right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Shares and Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D S Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D S Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing distribution fee with respect to sales of Class T, Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Distribution Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Distribution Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Distribution Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing FeeShares, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees portion of the Distribution Fee related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D sharesShares, as applicable, shall cease, and beginning on such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any date, such portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees Distribution Fee may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D sharesShares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), ) to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), ) and such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Distribution Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) Dealers pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, all in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For Notwithstanding the avoidance of doubtforegoing, (i) the Dealer Manager may will waive the Servicing Distribution Fee with respect to sales of Class T, Class S or Class D Shares to the extent a Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services is not eligible to receive such Distribution Fee, unless the Dealer Manager is serving as the broker dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares, as applicable. No Distribution Fee is payable with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer ManagerClass I Shares.
f. The Dealer Manager shall will cease receiving the Servicing Distribution Fee with respect to any individual Class T shareT, Class S share and Class D shares when they are no longer outstanding, including as a result of conversion to Class I shares described below. Each Class T, Class S or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in within a stockholder’s account at shall automatically and without any action on the end part of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will holder thereof convert into a number of Class I shares at the Applicable Conversion Rate set forth in the Prospectus on the earliest of (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (ia) a listing of Class I sharesany shares of the Company’s common stock on a national securities exchange, (iib) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets and (c) the end of the month in each case which the Dealer Manager in conjunction with the Company’s transfer agent determines that the total upfront selling commissions, upfront dealer manager fees and ongoing Distribution Fees paid with respect to all shares of such class held by such stockholder within such account (including shares purchased through a distribution reinvestment plan or received as stock dividends) equals or exceeds 8.75% (or a lower limit set forth in any applicable agreement between the Dealer Manager and a participating broker-dealer, provided that the Dealer Manager advises the Company’s transfer agent of the lower limit in writing) of the aggregate purchase price of all shares of such class held by such stockholder within such account and purchased in a transaction primary offering (i.e., an offering other than a distribution reinvestment plan). In addition, after termination of the primary portion of an Offering, the Company will cease paying the Distribution Fees with respect to each Class T, Class S or Class D share sold in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed that Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering), on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following when, the completion Company, with the assistance of such Offering on whichthe Dealer Manager, in the aggregate, determines that all underwriting compensation from all sources paid or incurred in connection with such OfferingOffering from all sources, including selling commissionsdetermined pursuant to the rules and guidance of FINRA, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (would be in excess of 10%) % of the gross proceeds from aggregate purchase price of all Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T sharesT, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Distribution Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, commissions or any reallowance of the dealer manager fees fee or the Servicing Distribution Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of the dealer manager fees fee or the Servicing Distribution Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership Black Creek Diversified Property Advisors LLC (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA; provided, however, that, the aggregate of all underwriting compensation paid in connection with the Offering may not exceed 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Primary Shares in such Offering, excluding reimbursement of bona fide due diligence expenses as provided under Section 3.j.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA3.i, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the ProspectusDealer. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties may elect to pay supplemental fees and commissions to certain Dealers and Servicing Dealers with respect to Class I Primary Shares, which may be paid at the time of sale or over time, provided, however, that the parties acknowledge and agree that (a) such supplemental fees and commissions will be considered underwriting compensation subject to the 10% underwriting compensation limit and (b) such supplemental fees and commissions will not be reimbursed by the Company.
k. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. . The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of up to $3,500,000,000 in Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients and customers and employees (and certain family members) of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of up to 7.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold to the public by Commission Dealers, plus a stockholder servicing dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.2% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold to the public by Commission Dealers. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to Shares sold (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee pursuant to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowanceCompany’s dividend reinvestment plan, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing by Advisory Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Commission Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingIn addition, at the discretion of Hxxxx Advisors Limited Partnership, the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak ’s advisor (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall may reimburse or cause an affiliate to reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced and other expenses relating to the Offering as described in the Prospectus, including but not limited to, reimbursement of up to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations 0.5% of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described in the ProspectusDealer. The Advisor may also make payments or cause an affiliate to make payments to certain Advisory Fee Dealers either directly or through the Dealer Manager for marketing or other expenses of such Dealers in connection with the offering and marketing of our Shares. The Advisor shall obtain from have the right to require the Dealer Manager and any Offering Participant and Dealer to provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for as a condition to any such due diligence expensesreimbursement. Notwithstanding anything contained herein The Company and the Advisor may change these commissions and fees, in their discretion, at any time upon 30 days written notice to the contraryDealer Manager, no payments or reimbursements made by in which event the Company Dealer Manager shall so notify the Dealers of such change in accordance with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts terms of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingSelected Dealer Agreements.
j. 3.4 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that who signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto Authorized Sales Materials does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with the offer or sale of Shares. The Dealer Manager further represents and warrants to the Company that it shall promptly (a) notify the Dealers of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus or Authorized Sales Materials, and all other (b) supply the Dealers with reasonable quantities of the Prospectus, any Authorized Sales Materials and any supplements or amendments thereto, to the extent provided to the Dealer Manager by the Company. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that, in connection with the sale of Shares to customers of the Dealer Manager in transactions pursuant to which the Dealer Manager rather than a Dealer is acting as the broker-dealers effecting transactions in dealer of record, it will deliver or make available a copy of the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell Prospectus as provided to the Shares at Dealer Manager by the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance Company from time to time prior to or simultaneously with the Prospectusfirst solicitation of an offer to sell Shares to an investor in connection with the offer or sale of Shares.
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Samples: Selected Dealer Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. (a) The Company hereby appoints confirms its appointment of the Dealer Manager as its non-exclusive agent and principal distributor during the period commencing with the date of this Agreement and ending on the date (the “Termination Date”) that the Company notifies the Dealer Manager that the Offering has been terminated (the “Offering Period”) to solicit, and to cause Participating Broker-Dealers to solicit, from “accredited investors” with whom they have substantive, pre-existing relationships, subscriptions for the purpose of selling Shares at the subscription prices to be paid in accordance with, and otherwise upon the other terms and conditions set forth in, the Memorandum and the applicable subscription documentation (including the related private placement questionnaire) for cash to the public up to the maximum amount applicable class of Shares set forth in (each, a “Subscription Agreement”), and the Prospectus (subject Dealer Manager agrees to use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through Shares during the Offering ParticipantsPeriod. The Company hereby expressly authorizes agrees that it shall notify the Dealer Manager as soon as practicable when it has received subscriptions for Class B common shares resulting in net proceeds equal to engage one the Initial Share Maximum Amount. The Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by (i) the Dealer Manager and (ii) any Participating Broker-Dealers that the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be registered as a broker dealer with the SEC, a member of FINRA in good standing and duly licensed by the appropriate regulatory agency of each jurisdiction in which they will conduct offers and sales of the Shares, or more Subwith broker dealers exempt from all such registration requirements, pursuant to an executed Participating Broker-Dealer Managers in connection Agreement with such Participating Broker-Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall only retain Participating Broker-Dealers who have been previously approved by the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderCompany. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts confirms its acceptance of such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through on the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus Memorandum with the respect to each the Offering and any additional terms and conditions set forth herein, as it may be amended from time to time.
(b) With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation and the participation by each Participating Broker-Dealer in the offer and sale of the Shares (including, without limitation, any permitted resales and transfers of Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into a Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply, and shall comply, with all the applicable requirements under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the FINRA Rules, as each may be amended from time to time, and any other applicable foreign, state or conditions specified local securities or other laws or rules of FINRA or any other applicable self-regulatory organization in offer and sale of the Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, to comply, and shall comply, with any applicable requirements with respect to its participation in any permitted resales or transfers of the Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have agreed, that should it assist with the permitted resale or transfer of the Shares, it shall fully comply with all applicable FINRA Rules, SEC rules and any other applicable federal or state laws.
(c) The Dealer Manager shall cause the Shares to be offered and sold only in the Offering Jurisdictions and in such additional jurisdictions that may be added thereto in which the offer and sale of the Shares has been authorized by the Company and under any applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions (or foreign equivalents). No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other jurisdiction. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of the Shares only the Memorandum and the Authorized Sales Materials. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company (and not subsequently withdrawn pursuant to Section 14) or use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with prospective accredited investors in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will cause the Participating Broker-Dealers to each agree, to suspend or terminate the offer and sale of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and to resume the offer and sale of the Shares upon any subsequent request of the Company.
(d) The Dealer Manager shall make any filings required by the FINRA Rules on behalf of itself and all other FINRA members participating in any capacity in the Offering and shall have received all required FINRA and other regulatory approvals.
(e) Except as may be provided in the Memorandum, which may be amended and supplemented from time to time, and subject to the limitations set forth in Schedule 2 I, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager an ongoing servicing fee (the “Servicing Fee”) with respect to any applicable class of Primary Shares (including any Future Offered Shares, if any) as described on Schedule I to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution time by mutual written agreement of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestparties.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (af) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement (as defined in Schedule I hereto) entered into with the Offering Participants Participating Broker-Dealers or Servicing DealersDealers (as defined in Schedule I hereto), as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Participating Broker-Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Participating Broker-Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being ; payment of the Servicing Fee to Participating Broker-Dealers and Servicing Dealers shall be the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing DealersManager. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company in its sole discretion, either directly or through DST Systems Inc. or such other agent appointed by it, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fees Fee to Offering Participants or Participating Broker-Dealers and Servicing Dealers without incurring any liability therefor.
(g) The Dealer Manager shall not, and shall cause each Participating Broker-Dealer not to, use any form of written communication, other than the Memorandum, any Authorized Sales Materials and any other written documentation relating to the Offering previously approved by the Company, in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares without the prior written consent of the Company.
(h) The Dealer Manager (i) shall not, and shall cause each Participating Broker-Dealer to represent that it shall not, solicit offers to buy, or offer or sell, the Shares by any form of general solicitation or general advertising (as those terms are used in Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act), or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, and (ii) shall, and shall cause each Participating Broker-Dealer to represent that it shall, solicit offers for Shares only from, and offer Shares only to, persons that it reasonably believes are “accredited investors,” as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act, based on behalf a substantive, pre-existing relationship between the Dealer Manager or Participating Broker-Dealer, on the one hand, and the prospective purchaser, on the other hand. With respect to any sales of Shares made through a Participating Broker-Dealer, the Dealer Manager shall be entitled to rely on such Participating Broker-Dealer’s substantive, pre-existing relationship with the prospective investor.
(i) The Dealer Manager acknowledges, and shall cause each Participating Broker-Dealer to acknowledge, that the submission of an order for Shares or a request for the Company (or in the case of a Participating Broker-Dealer, the Company or the Dealer Manager) to provide a memorandum or Authorized Sales Materials shall constitute a representation and warranty that each of the representations and warranties of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition and such Participating Broker-Dealer under Sections 2(e), 2(m), 5(f), and 5(g) hereof continue to be true and accurate in all respects. The Dealer Manager shall, and shall cause each Participating Broker-Dealer to, during the course of the Offering, on an annual basis, provide to the other items Company a written certificate confirming that, to the best of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3its knowledge, each of the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse representations and warranties of the Dealer Manager Parties under Sections 2(e), 2(m), 5(f), and 5(g) hereof continue to be true and accurate in all respects. The Dealer Manager shall be entitled to conduct such additional, supplemental due diligence inquiries with respect to Participating Broker-Dealers’ compliance with the subject matter of the representations and warranties contained in Sections 2(e), 2(m), 5(f), and 5(g) hereof as the Dealer Manager may deem necessary or desirable. The Dealer Manager shall, and shall cause each Participating Broker-Dealer to represent that it shall, provide such information to the Company and the Dealer Manager, as applicable, as may be required for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the ProspectusCompany or the Dealer Manager, as applicable, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid comply with any law, rule or regulation or request by a regulatory authority or otherwise as reasonably requested by the Company or the AdviserDealer Manager, as applicable, in connection with the Offering, and shall make the individuals primarily involved with the provision of services to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse and/or the Dealer Manager Parties under this Agreement or a Participating Broker-Dealer Agreement, as applicable, available for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant consultation with the Company and/or the Dealer Manager in regards to the Offering; provided that reasonable notice is provided to the Dealer Manager or Participating Broker-Dealer, as described in the Prospectus. applicable.
(j) The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other brokerParticipating Broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share described in the Memorandum.
(k) The Dealer Manager shall remain in compliance with all AML Rules and shall, upon request by the Company, provide a certification to the Company that, as determined of the date of such certification, the Dealer Manager is in accordance compliance with all AML Rules, specifically including, but not limited to, the specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act.
(l) The Dealer Manager will maintain in effect and shall enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with Sanctions and Anti-Corruption Laws by the Dealer Manager, its subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents. The Dealer Manager will not act in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions or Anti-Corruption Laws by any party to this Agreement. The Dealer Manager will deliver in a timely manner all documents reasonably requested by the Company in connection with Sanctions or Anti-Corruption Laws.
(m) The Dealer Manager shall keep, and shall cause its officers, directors, managers, employees, owners, members, partners and other agents (collectively, its “Representatives”) to keep, all Confidential Information (as defined below) strictly confidential, and shall not use, distribute or copy the same except in connection with the ProspectusDealer Manager’s performance of its obligations hereunder. The Dealer Manager agrees not to disclose, and to cause its Representatives not to disclose, such Confidential Information to the public, or to any person involved in selling efforts related to the Offering or to any other third party and agrees not to use the Confidential Information in any manner in the offer and sale of the Shares. The Dealer Manager shall use all reasonable precautions necessary to preserve the confidentiality of the Confidential Information, including, but not limited to, (i) limiting access to such information to persons who have a need to know such information only for the purpose of the performance of the Dealer Manager’s obligations hereunder and (ii) informing each recipient of such Confidential Information of the Dealer Manager’s confidentiality obligation. The Dealer Manager acknowledges that the Dealer Manager or its Representatives may have previously received Confidential Information, and agrees that the foregoing restrictions shall apply to any such previously received Confidential Information. The Dealer Manager acknowledges that the Dealer Manager or its Representatives may in the future receive Confidential Information, either in individual or collective meetings or telephone calls with the Company or the Adviser, and agrees that the foregoing restrictions shall apply to any Confidential Information received through any source or medium. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information may be disclosed (a) if approved in writing for disclosure by the Company, (b) pursuant to a subpoena or as required by law, or (c) as required by any regulation, rule, order or request of any governing or self- regulatory organization (including the SEC or FINRA); provided that the Dealer Manager shall notify the Company, in advance if practicable under the circumstances, of any attempt to obtain Confidential Information pursuant to provisions (b) and (c). For purposes hereof, “Confidential Information” shall mean and include: (A) trade secrets concerning the business and affairs of the Company, the Adviser or their respective affiliates; (B) confidential data, know-how, current and planned research and development, current and planned methods and processes, investment strategies, marketing lists or strategies, slide presentations and business plans, however documented, belonging to the Company, the Adviser or their respective affiliates; (C) information concerning the business and affairs of the Company, the Adviser or their respective affiliates (including, without limitation, historical financial statements, financial projections and budgets, investment-related information, models, budgets, plans, market studies and personal information, however documented); (D) any information marked or designated “Confidential”; and (E) any notes, analyses, compilations, studies, summaries and other material containing or based, in whole or in part, on any information included in the foregoing; provided, however, that “Confidential Information” shall not include information that (w) is or becomes available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by the Dealer Manager in breach of this Agreement, (x) was available to the Dealer Manager on a non-confidential basis prior to its disclosure to such Dealer Manager in connection with this Agreement, (y) becomes available to the Dealer Manager from a source that is not known by the Dealer Manager to be otherwise prohibited from communicating such information to the Dealer Manager or (z) is independently developed by the Dealer Manager without reference to the Confidential Information. Nothing herein shall be construed as restricting the Company in any way in the use of its own Confidential Information.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Fortress Credit Realty Income Trust)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of up to $3,500,000,000 in Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients and customers and employees (and certain family members) of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of up to 7.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold to the public by Dealers in Commission Sales, plus a stockholder servicing dealer manager fee in the amount of 2.2% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold to the public by Dealers in Commission Sales. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to Shares sold (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee pursuant to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowanceCompany’s dividend reinvestment plan, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing in Advisory Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableSales. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingIn addition, at the discretion of Xxxxx Advisors Limited Partnership, the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak ’s advisor (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall may reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced and other expenses relating to the Offering as described in the Prospectus, including but not limited to, reimbursement of up to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations 0.5% of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described Dealer. The Advisor shall reimburse the Dealer Manager for any marketing fees paid with respect to Advisory Fee Sales. The Advisor may also reimburse the Dealer Manager for reimbursements that the Dealer Manager makes to Dealers to defray marketing and other distribution related costs and expenses of the Dealers’ participation in the Prospectusoffering. The Advisor shall have the right to require the Dealer Manager shall obtain from and any Offering Participant and Dealer to provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for as a condition to any such due diligence expensesreimbursement. The Company and the Advisor may change these commissions and fees, in their discretion, at any time upon 30 days written notice to the Dealer Manager, in which event the Dealer Manager shall so notify the Dealers of such change in accordance with the terms of the Selected Dealer Agreements. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contraryforegoing provisions of this Section 3.3, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder Advisor shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under not reimburse the Statement Dealer Manager for amounts in excess of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts 0.8% of the North American Securities Administrators Associationgross proceeds of the Offering, Inc. (as amended from time excluding up to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15an additional 0.5% of gross proceeds from such Offeringfor bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Dealer; provided, however, that the Advisor may pay additional reimbursements to the Dealer Manager but only in an amount and to the extent that the selling commissions and dealer manager fees paid in connection with the Offering aggregate less than 9.2% of the gross proceeds.
j. 3.4 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that who signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto Authorized Sales Materials does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with the offer or sale of Shares. The Dealer Manager further represents and warrants to the Company that it shall promptly (a) notify the Dealers of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus or Authorized Sales Materials, and all other (b) supply the Dealers with reasonable quantities of the Prospectus, any Authorized Sales Materials and any supplements or amendments thereto, to the extent provided to the Dealer Manager by the Company. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that, in connection with the sale of Shares to customers of the Dealer Manager in transactions pursuant to which the Dealer Manager rather than a Dealer is acting as the broker-dealers effecting transactions in dealer of record, it will deliver or make available a copy of the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell Prospectus as provided to the Shares at Dealer Manager by the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance Company from time to time prior to or simultaneously with the Prospectusfirst solicitation of an offer to sell Shares to an investor in connection with the offer or sale of Shares.
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Samples: Selected Dealer Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $1.7 billion in Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestconditions.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary SharesManager, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in through the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with the Dealers, shall cause Dealers to agree to deliver to each prospective investor, prior to any submission by such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible prospective investor of a written offer to buy any Shares, a copy of the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer AgreementProspectus.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager, at the time of sale of Shares, sales commissions up to a maximum amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering. The Company and XXXX-Xxxxxxx REIT Advisor, LLC (the “Advisor”) agree that they will pay to the Dealer Manager an aggregate dealer manager fee up to a maximum amount of (i) 3.0% of gross proceeds of Class T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, 1.0% of which will be funded by the Company and up to 2.0% of which will be funded by the Advisor, and (ii) 1.5% of gross proceeds of Class I Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, all of which will be funded by the Advisor. To the extent that the dealer manager fee is less than 3.0% for any Class T Shares sold and less than 1.5% for any Class I Shares sold, such shares will have a corresponding reduction in the applicable purchase price. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a quarterly stockholder servicing fee with respect in the aggregate amount of up to sales a maximum of 4.0% of gross proceeds of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, which stockholder servicing fee and will accrue daily in an amount equal to 1/365th (1/366th during a dealer leap year) of 1.0% of the purchase price per Share of Class T Shares sold, excluding Class T Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described Shares held in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible particular account on the last day earlier of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of the Class I shares, T Shares on a national securities exchange; (ii) the a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or assets; (iii) after the date following termination of the completion primary portion of the Offering in which the initial Class T Shares in the account were sold, the end of the month in which total underwriting compensation paid in the primary portion of the Offering is not less than 10.0% of the gross proceeds of the primary portion of the Offering from the sale of Class T Shares and Class I Shares; and (iv) the end of the month in which the total stockholder servicing fees paid with respect to such Class T Shares purchased in the primary portion of the Offering on whichis not less than 4.0% (or a lower limit, provided that, in the aggregatecase of a lower limit, underwriting compensation from the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect at the time Class T Shares were first issued to such account sets forth the lower limit and the Dealer Manager advises the Company’s transfer agent of the lower limit in writing) of the gross offering price of those Class T Shares purchased in such Offering (excluding shares purchased through the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan). If the Company redeems a portion, but not all sources of the Class T Shares held in a stockholder’s account, the total stockholder servicing fee limit and amount of stockholder servicing fees previously paid will be prorated between the Class T Shares that were redeemed and those Class T Shares that were retained in the account. Likewise, if a portion of the Class T Shares in a stockholder’s account is sold or otherwise transferred in a secondary transaction, the total stockholder servicing fee limit and amount of stockholder servicing fees previously paid will be prorated between the Class T Shares that were transferred and the Class T Shares that were retained in the account. The stockholder servicing fee relates to the Class T Share or Shares sold. The Dealer Manager may, in its discretion, re-allow to Dealers up to 100% of the stockholder servicing fee for providing ongoing or regular account or portfolio maintenance for the stockholder, assisting with recordkeeping, assisting and processing distribution payments or providing other similar services as the stockholder may reasonably require in connection with such Offeringstockholder’s investment in Class T Shares; provided, including however, that with respect to any individual investment, the Dealer Manager will not re-allow the related stockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer ceases to be the broker-dealer of record related to such investment or fails to provide the aforementioned services. In addition, the Dealer Manager will not re-allow the stockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer has not executed a Participating Dealer Agreement or a servicing agreement with the Dealer Manager. In any instance in which the Dealer Manager does not re-allow the stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer, the Dealer Manager will return such fee to the Company. No selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal fee or stockholder servicing fee shall be paid with respect to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the Dealer Manager and any Dealers participating in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementthe Offering, including, but not limited to, selling commissions, the dealer manager fee and the stockholder servicing fee (which includes expense reimbursements and non-cash compensation), exceed 10.0% of aggregate gross offering proceeds from the sale of Shares in the primary portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company and the Advisor will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee stockholder servicing fees to such Offering Participant or Servicing any Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee such to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees of stockholder servicing fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales of the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager is a duly organized and validly existing limited liability company under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Dealer Manager is not in violation of its operating agreement.
3.7 No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.8 There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Dealer Manager Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.9 The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.10 The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT III, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 100,000,000 Units through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the NASD. The Dealer Manager may also sell Units for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants Units on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution terms of the Shares in the OfferingBank Escrow Agreement executed as of March _________________, including with respect to its engagement 2000 ("Escrow Agreement") by BankWest of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersNevada ("Bank"), as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunderCompany, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale a signed copy of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject which the Dealer Manager acknowledges has been furnished to compliance with Regulation Best Interestit by the Manager, and a conformed copy of which is attached to this Agreement and incorporated herein by this reference.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering Units for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares Units are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares Units upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares Units upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 As provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” " section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem pay the Dealer Manager up to be the brokerone and one-dealer half percent (1.5%) of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of this offering, of which a maximum of one-half of one percent (0.5%) of gross proceeds is for the reimbursement of expenses, all or any shares issued portion of which may be reallocated to any Dealer under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement between for that Dealer's accountable expenses in this offering. (Such aggregate percentage of gross proceeds, excluding the portion reimbursed as expenses, is hereinafter referred to as the "Dealer Management Fee".) Without in any way limiting the foregoing, no commissions, Dealer Manager Fee or expense reimbursement will be paid to the Dealer Manager or any Dealer in excess of the maximum permitted by NASD Rules of Conduct and applicable Guidelines pertaining to sales compensation in offerings of this kind. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until 1,500,000 Units have been sold by the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on Dealers (the date upon which such Class T shares were sold"Minimum Offering"). At Until the end of such monthMinimum Offering is obtained, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) investments will be held in a stockholder’s the escrow account and, if the Minimum Offering is not obtained, will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant be returned to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets investors in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into accordance with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus and Escrow Agreement. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance and reimbursements of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee expenses to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Manager and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the Bank, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions under the Escrow Agreement, has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Shares on behalf Units, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of Offering Participantsthe Units or the Company, nor will offer and sell it use the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined name of said Bank in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Units other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Dm Mortgage Investors LLC)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 25,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), members of any other regulated exchange or registered investment advisors. The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA; (ii) it will at all times maintain and employ an adequate number administrative personnel (who shall be acceptable to the Company) to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and any supplemental or successor agreement and shall be solely responsible for the compensation of such personnel; (iii) it will be responsible for payment of such other costs incurred by it in good standing of FINRA connection with the Offering as shall be agreed between the Company and that the Dealer Manager, which costs shall not exceed the amounts received by the Dealer Manager as a dealer manager fee (discussed below); (iv) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (v) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with be bound by the applicable requirements terms of the Securities ActEscrow Agreement, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act a copy of 1934, which is attached as amended Exhibit "B" (the “Exchange Act”"Escrow Agreement"), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statementthis agreement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in " Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect of up to sales 2.5% of Class S gross offering proceeds before reallowance to participating broker-dealers, but not less than $5,000.00 per month after said reallowances. Pursuant to separately negotiated agreements, Dealer Manager may re-allow a portion of its Dealer Manager fee in an aggregate amount not to exceed the maximum permitted under the FINRA and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect NASAA REIT Guidelines to Class T sharesbroker-dealers participating in the offering. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will pay the Servicing Fee be paid to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all under this Section 3.3 unless or a portion until the gross proceeds of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who Shares sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee are disbursed to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee Company pursuant to the extent Escrow Agreement. Until the agreement between or among the Dealer ManagerRequired Capital, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or Pennsylvania Required Capital or the Selected RIA New York Required Capital (as applicable and as defined in the Escrow Agreement) is obtained, investments will be held in escrow and, if the Required Capital, the Pennsylvania Required Capital or Selected Institutionthe New York Required Capital, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; providedis not obtained, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement investments will be returned to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct authorization of payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for authorizing payment of commissions to Dealers. No sales commission or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they fee will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and with respect to Shares sold pursuant to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing Company's dividend reinvestment plan. Total underwriting compensation, including sales commissions, the dealer manager fee and underwriter expense reimbursement may not exceed the maximum amount allowed under the rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectusProspectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hartman Short Term Income Properties XX, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the a maximum amount of $1,485,000,000 in Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right directly or through Dealers, all of reallocation, whom shall be members of FINRA or registered investment advisors who are paid no commission or as otherwise described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers its own clients and customers at the public offering price and subject to the terms and conditions stated in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderProspectus. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (a) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that FINRA; (b) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation ; and (c) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable FINRA rules, SEC rules and the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange USA PATRIOT Act of 19342001 or will require that its Dealers establish such programs, as amended (reasonably expected to detect and cause the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and Shares of the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and Prospectus plus a dealer stockholder servicing manager fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between “Plan of Distribution” Section of the Prospectus. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager and under this Section 3.3 unless or until subscriptions for the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end purchase of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of Shares have been accepted by the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionscommissions to such Dealers without incurring any liability therefor. With respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition agrees to reduce its commission and dealer manager fee to the other items percentage, if any, of underwriting compensation the gross proceeds of the Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items Plan of underwriting compensation referenced in Distribution” Section of the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company, each owner, director, officer and employee of the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions distribute in conjunction with the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell sale of any Shares only the Prospectus (as it may be supplemented or amended from time-to-time) and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares at to be offered and sold only in such jurisdictions where the public Dealer Manager and the respective Dealer are licensed to do so. In addition, the Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company where the offering prices per share and sale of its Shares have been authorized by appropriate regulatory authorities and such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as determined additional states are added. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in accordance with the Prospectusany other jurisdiction.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Multifamily Reit I Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $1.1 billion in Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager sales commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold plus a stockholder servicing dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect Shares sold pursuant to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”)Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will pay In no event shall the Servicing Fee total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) and any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change participating in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class TOffering, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in selling commissions and the form of ownership of the accountdealer manager fee (which includes expense reimbursements and non-cash compensation), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion exceed 10.0% of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, gross offering proceeds in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer manager is a duly incorporated and validly existing corporation under the laws of the State of California.
3.7 No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.8 There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.9 The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.10 The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.11 Except for Participating Dealer Agreements, no agreement will be made by the Dealer Manager with any person permitting the resale, repurchase or distribution of any Shares purchased by such person.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. Section 4.1 of the Agreement is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:
(a) The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor during the period commencing with the Effective Date and ending on February 28, 2007 (the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of selling for cash Offered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, and otherwise upon the public up to the maximum amount of Shares other terms and conditions set forth in in, the Prospectus (subject to and the Company’s right of reallocationSubscription Agreement, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of the NASD in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth conditions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, commencing on February 28, 2007, the Dealer Manager’s obligations under this Agreement shall consist of acting as the “non-exclusive” agent of the Company, at the same rate of compensation provided under Section 4.5 and reimbursement of costs and expenses provided under Section 3, for the sole purpose of assisting Participating Dealers in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. processing subscriptions.
(b) The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of the NASD in good standing of FINRA and that standings, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in the distribution of the Shares in the Offeringaccordance with applicable law, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersapplicable NASD rules, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the Commission rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale USA PATRIOT Act of Shares2001, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws reasonably expected to detect and regulations, and cause the rules reporting of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions suspicious transactions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares the offering and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion sale of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Offered Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Paladin Realty Income Properties Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Shares and Class S Primary Shares Shares, and sales of certain Class D Primary Shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares Shares, as applicable, and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or and Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule Section 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or amended and supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing distribution fee with respect to sales of Class T, Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Distribution Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Distribution Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Distribution Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise subject to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of the Prospectus, at such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that time as the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing FeeShares, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Distribution Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall ceasecease in, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Distribution Fee for for, that month or any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; providedthereof (i.e., however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record Distribution Fees are payable with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, an entire month without any proration). Broker-dealer transfers will be made effective as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion start of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion first business day of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of recorda month. Thereafter, such Servicing Distribution Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Distribution Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Distribution Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For Notwithstanding the avoidance of doubtforegoing, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive will rebate the Servicing Distribution Fee to the Company with respect to sales of Class T, Class S or Class D Shares to the extent a Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services is not eligible to receive such Distribution Fee. No Distribution Fee is payable with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer ManagerClass I Shares.
f. The Dealer Manager shall will cease receiving the Servicing Distribution Fee with respect to any individual Class T shareT, Class S share and Class D shares when they are no longer outstanding, including as a result of conversion to Class I shares described below. Each Class T, Class S or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in within a stockholder’s account at shall automatically and without any action on the end part of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will holder thereof convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) ), each with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, share on the earliest of (i) the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager will cease receiving in conjunction with the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesCompany’s transfer agent determines that the total upfront selling commissions, Class S upfront dealer manager fees and ongoing Distribution Fees paid with respect to all shares of such class held by such stockholder within such account (including shares purchased through a dividend reinvestment plan or received as stock dividends) equals or exceeds, in the aggregate, 8.75% (or a lower limit set forth in any applicable agreement between the Dealer Manager and Class D a participating broker-dealer at the time such shares were issued, provided that the Dealer Manager advises the Company’s transfer agent of the lower limit in connection with an Offering writing) of the gross proceeds from the sale of all shares of such class held by such stockholder within such account and purchased in a primary offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: an offering other than a dividend reinvestment plan), (iii) a listing of the Class I shares, and (iiiii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity in which the Company is not the surviving entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets assets. In addition, after termination of the primary portion of an Offering, the Company will cease paying the Distribution Fees with respect to each Class T, Class S or Class D share sold in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed that Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering), on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following when, the completion Company, with the assistance of such Offering on whichthe Dealer Manager, in the aggregate, determines that all underwriting compensation from all sources paid or incurred in connection with such OfferingOffering from all sources, including selling commissionsdetermined pursuant to the rules and guidance of FINRA, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is would equal to ten percent (or exceed 10%) % of the gross proceeds from aggregate purchase price of all Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined . Each such share shall automatically and without any action on the part of the holder thereof convert into a number of Class I shares at the end of the month in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretionwhich such determination is made. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T sharesT, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Distribution Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Distribution Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Distribution Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Distribution Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership KBS Capital Advisors LLC (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA; provided, however, that, the aggregate of all underwriting compensation paid in connection with the Offering may not exceed 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Primary Shares in such Offering, excluding reimbursement of bona fide due diligence expenses as provided under Section 3.i.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant Dealer as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, defined under NASAA Guidelines (as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), in Section 4.a. below) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties may elect to pay supplemental fees and commissions to certain Dealers and Servicing Dealers with respect to Primary Shares, which may be paid at the time of sale or over time, provided, however, that the parties acknowledge and agree that (1) such supplemental fees and commissions will be considered underwriting compensation subject to the 10% underwriting compensation limit and (2) such supplemental fees and commissions will not be reimbursed by the Company.
k. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. l. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 110,000,000 Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) (a successor entity to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”)). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Dealer Manager Agreement. With respect The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution terms of the Shares in the OfferingEscrow Agreement executed by and among Xxxxx Fargo, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersN.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager sales commissions in the amount of 7.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold plus a stockholder servicing dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold to the public. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect Shares sold pursuant to Class T sharesthe Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will pay the Servicing Fee be paid to the Dealer Manager monthly under this Section 3.3 unless or until $1,000,000 in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who Shares have been sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager and its Dealers (the “Minimum Offering”). Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, proceeds from the sale of Shares will be held in good faith in its sole discretion. escrow and, if the Minimum Offering Participants are is not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect obtained, will be returned to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, investors in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. . In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3addition, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall may reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced in the Prospectus, and other expenses relating to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. .
3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will they use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Strategic Storage Trust, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, amended and restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Shares and Class S Primary Shares Shares, and sales of certain Class D Primary Shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares Shares, as applicable, and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or and Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule Section 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or amended and supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing distribution fee with respect to sales of Class T, Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Distribution Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Distribution Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Distribution Fee to the extent the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise subject to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of the Prospectus, at such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that time as the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing FeeShares, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Distribution Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall ceasecease in, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Distribution Fee for for, that month or any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; providedthereof (i.e., however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record Distribution Fees are payable with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, an entire month without any proration). Broker-dealer transfers will be made effective as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion start of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion first business day of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of recorda month. Thereafter, such Servicing Distribution Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Selected Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Distribution Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Distribution Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For Notwithstanding the avoidance of doubtforegoing, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive will rebate the Servicing Distribution Fee to the Company with respect to sales of Class T, Class S or Class D Shares to the extent a Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services is not eligible to receive such Distribution Fee, unless the Dealer Manager is serving as the broker dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares, as applicable. No Distribution Fee is payable with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer ManagerClass I Shares.
f. The Dealer Manager shall will cease receiving the Servicing Distribution Fee with respect to any individual Class T shareT, Class S share and Class D shares when they are no longer outstanding, including as a result of conversion to Class I shares described below. Each Class T, Class S or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in within a stockholder’s account at shall automatically and without any action on the end part of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will holder thereof convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) ), each with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, share on the earliest of (i) the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager will cease receiving in conjunction with the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesCompany’s transfer agent determines that the total upfront selling commissions, Class S upfront dealer manager fees and ongoing Distribution Fees paid with respect to all shares of such class held by such stockholder within such account (including shares purchased through a dividend reinvestment plan or received as stock dividends) equals or exceeds, in the aggregate, 8.75% (or a lower limit set forth in any applicable agreement between the Dealer Manager and Class D a participating broker-dealer at the time such shares in connection with an Offering (i.e.were issued, pursuant to provided that the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon Dealer Manager advises the earlier to occur Company’s transfer agent of the following: lower limit in writing) of the gross proceeds from the sale of all shares of such class held by such stockholder within such account (iincluding the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the Company’s dividend reinvestment plan), (ii) a listing of the Class I shares, and (iiiii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity in which the Company is not the surviving entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets assets. In addition, after termination of the primary portion of an Offering, the Company will cease paying the Distribution Fees with respect to each Class T, Class S or Class D share sold in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed that Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering), on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following when, the completion Company, with the assistance of such Offering on whichthe Dealer Manager, in the aggregate, determines that all underwriting compensation from all sources paid or incurred in connection with such OfferingOffering from all sources, including selling commissionsdetermined pursuant to the rules and guidance of FINRA, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is would equal to ten percent (or exceed 10%) % of the gross proceeds from aggregate purchase price of all Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined . Each such share shall automatically and without any action on the part of the holder thereof convert into a number of Class I shares at the end of the month in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretionwhich such determination is made. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Distribution Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T sharesT, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Distribution Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Selected Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Distribution Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Distribution Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Distribution Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership Pacific Oak Capital Advisors, LLC (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA; provided, however, that, the aggregate of all underwriting compensation paid in connection with the Offering may not exceed 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Primary Shares in such Offering, excluding reimbursement of bona fide due diligence expenses as provided under Section 3.i.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant Dealer as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, defined under NASAA Guidelines (as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), in Section 4.a. below) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties may elect to pay supplemental fees and commissions to certain Dealers and Servicing Dealers with respect to Primary Shares, which may be paid at the time of sale or over time, provided, however, that the parties acknowledge and agree that (1) such supplemental fees and commissions will be considered underwriting compensation subject to the 10% underwriting compensation limit and (2) such supplemental fees and commissions will not be reimbursed by the Company.
k. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. l. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. (a) The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 29,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may not sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers except to institutional investors approved by the Company at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable (b) Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. (c) Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in the amount of 6.0% (or 7.0% where the purchaser elects to pay a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales deferred commission) of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and the gross proceeds of the Shares sold plus a dealer stockholder servicing manager fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer amount of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.752.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicablesold. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.d) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. (e) The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at a price of $10 per share. Notwithstanding the public offering prices per share foregoing, Shares may be sold to executive officers, directors, employees and affiliates of Dividend Capital Advisors LLC (the “Advisor”) at a discount which, as determined provided in accordance with the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, reflects a reduction in (i) the acquisition and advisory fees payable to the Advisor, (ii) the dealer manager fee and/or (iii) the selling commissions otherwise payable with respect to such Shares. Also as provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, the Dealer Manager or any Broker may reduce the amount of its selling commission on sales of 50,000 or more Shares to any purchaser in order to provide a reduction to the total purchase price for such Shares.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Dividend Capital Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 44,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that the NASD; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Offeringterms of the Escrow Agreement executed as of _______________, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2005 among ________________, as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with and the applicable requirements Company, a copy of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange Act”"Escrow Agreement"), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757.0% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.5% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share Shares sold (or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) 1.0% of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offeringfor sales under the dividend reinvestment feature of the Company's dividend reinvestment and automatic purchase plan). Notwithstanding the foregoing, as determined in good faith by no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of under this Agreement, Section 3.3 unless or until the portion gross proceeds of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect Shares sold are disbursed to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares the Company pursuant to paragraph 3(a) of the Company’s common stock issued by Escrow Agreement. Until the Company during Required Capital or the term of a particular Offering, Pennsylvania/Nebraska Required Capital (as applicable and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth as defined in the Participating Dealer Escrow Agreement) is obtained, any agreement with a Selected RIAinvestments will be held in escrow and, Selected Institution Agreement if the Required Capital or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing DealersPennsylvania/Nebraska Required Capital, as applicable, is not obtained, investments will be returned to the investors in accordance with the Prospectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionscommissions to such Dealers without incurring any liability therefor. With respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company's dividend reinvestment plan, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityagrees to reduce its dealer manager fee to 1.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold pursuant to the dividend reinvestment plan.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company. The Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states.
3.6 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT I, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance Dealers, all of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderwhom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, supplemented or restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares, Class D Primary Shares, Class F-T Primary Shares, Class F-S Primary Shares and Class F-D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares, Class D Primary Shares, Class F-T Primary Shares, Class F-S Primary Shares and Class F-D Primary Shares Shares, as applicable, and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares, Class D Primary Shares, Class F-T Primary Shares, Class F-S Primary Shares or and Class F-D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and amended, supplemented or restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares and Class F-T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and Class F-T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares and the Class F-T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, supplemented or restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class T shares, Class S shares, Class D shares, Class F-T shares, Class F-S shares and Class F-D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class TT shares, Class S shares, Class D shares, Class F-T shares, Class F-S shares or Class F-D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise subject to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of the Prospectus, at such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that time as the Dealer who sold the Class TT shares, Class S shares, Class D shares, Class F-T shares, Class F-S shares or Class F-D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class TT shares, Class S shares, Class D shares, Class F-T shares, Class F-S shares or Class F-D Shares shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer Dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement Participating Dealer Agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealerDealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class TT shares, Class S shares, Class D shares, Class F-T shares, Class F-S shares and/or Class F-D shares, as applicable, shall ceasecease in, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for for, that month or any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; providedthereof (i.e., however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record Servicing Fees are payable with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, an entire month without any proration). Broker-dealer transfers will be made effective as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion start of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion first business day of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of recorda month. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class TT shares, Class S shares, Class D shares, Class F-T shares, Class F-S shares and/or Class F-D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are The Dealer is not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares or Class F-I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share, Class D share, Class F-T share, Class F-S share or Class F-D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held by such stockholder within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% (or, in the case of Class T shares or Class F-T shares sold through certain Dealers, a lower limit as set forth in any applicable agreement between the Dealer Manager and such Dealer) of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, each such Class T share, Class S share, Class D share, Class F-T share, Class F-S share or Class F-D share (shall automatically and without any shares issued under action on the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will part of the holder thereof convert into a number of Class I shares or Class F-I shares (including any fractional shares) ), each with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares, Class D shares, Class F-T shares, Class F-S shares and or Class F-D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares or Class F-I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange assets, or (iii) the date following the completion of the primary portion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares, Class D shares, Class F-T shares, Class F-S shares and Class F-D shares of the Company’s common stock issued (publicly or privately) by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants Dealers or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant Dealer or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants Dealers and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership Xxxxx & Steers Capital Management, Inc. (the “AdviserAdvisor”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the AdviserAdvisor, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant Dealer as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Dealer and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, defined under NASAA Guidelines (as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), in Section 4.a. below) and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Cohen & Steers Income Opportunities REIT, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company 3.1 Each Partnership hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 3,500,000 Units through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"). The Dealer Manager may also sell Units for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants Units on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company Partnership that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution terms of the Shares in the OfferingEscrow Agreement executed as of October _____, including with respect to its engagement 1998 by The Bank of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersNew York, as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunderPartnership, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale a copy of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestwhich is enclosed.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering Units for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares Units are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares Units upon request of the Company Partnership at any time and will resume offering the Shares Units upon subsequent request of the CompanyPartnership.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company Partnership agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Units sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.5% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued the Units sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between this Section 3.3 unless or until 125,000 Units have been sold by the Dealer Manager and its Dealers (the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month"Minimum Offering"), such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing commissions payable with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares sales made to residents of the Company’s common stock issued by States of New York and Pennsylvania, until 250,000 Units (from all sources), have been sold. Until the Company during Minimum Offering is obtained, investments will be held in escrow and, if the term of a particular OfferingMinimum Offering is not obtained, and not issued pursuant will be returned to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth investors in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into accordance with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableProspectus. The Company Partnership will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, General Partners the Company Partnership may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Distribution Agreement (Wells Real Estate Fd Xii L P & Wells Real Estate Fd Xiii Lp)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 10,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of the NASD; (ii) it will at all times maintain and employ an adequate number of wholesalers and administrative personnel (who shall be acceptable to the Company) to fulfill its obligations under this agreement and any supplemental or successor agreement and shall be solely responsible for the compensation of such personnel; (iii) it will be responsible for payment of such other costs incurred by it in good standing of FINRA connection with the Offering as shall be agreed between the Company and that the Dealer Manager, which costs shall not exceed the amounts received by the Dealer Manager as a dealer manager fee (discussed below); (iv) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (v) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Offeringterms of the Escrow Agreement executed as of ____________, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2004, among Xxxxx Fargo Bank Iowa, N.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with and the applicable requirements Company, a copy of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange Act”"Escrow Agreement"), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” in " Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757.0% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold to the public and up to 5.0% of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) dividend reinvestment plan, plus a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, dealer manager fee in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) amount of 2.5% of the gross proceeds from Primary of the Shares sold sold. As provided in such Offeringthe Prospectus, as determined in good faith no selling commissions will be paid to the Dealer Manager for sales made by broker-dealers who are affiliated with the Company or by the Company's employees who may be registered with the NASD and sponsored by the Dealer Manager, but only for sales made through Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager in its sole discretionunder this Section 3.3 unless or until the gross proceeds of the Shares sold are disbursed to the Company pursuant to paragraph 3(a) of the Escrow Agreement. For purposes of this AgreementUntil the Required Capital, the portion of Pennsylvania Required Capital or the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares New York Required Capital (as applicable and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth as defined in the Participating Dealer Escrow Agreement) is obtained, any agreement with a Selected RIAinvestments will be held in escrow and, Selected Institution Agreement if the Required Capital, the Pennsylvania Required Capital or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing DealersNew York Required Capital, as applicable, is not obtained, investments will be returned to the investors in accordance with the Prospectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they liability therefor. No dealer manager fee will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and with respect to Shares sold pursuant to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing Company's dividend reinvestment plan. Under the rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h.the NASD, and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRAtotal underwriting compensation, including sales commissions, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse dealer manager fee and underwriter expense reimbursement, may not exceed 10% of the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds from the sale of the Shares, except for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in expenses, which may not exceed 0.5% of the Prospectus. gross proceeds from the sale of the Shares.
3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “"Plan of Distribution” " in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company for whose account Shares are then offered for sale, and all such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. The Company shall specify only such jurisdictions in which the offering and sale of its Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions states.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hartman Commercial Properties Reit)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Operating Partnership (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates) as follows:
4.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its exclusive agent and principal distributor during the period commencing with the Effective Date and ending on the Offering Termination Date (the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Participating Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of selling for cash Offered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, and otherwise upon the public up to the maximum amount of Shares other terms and conditions set forth in in, the Prospectus (and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offering Period will terminate on a date on or before two years from the date of the initial Prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b), subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through to terminate the Offering Participantsat any time and provided that the Offering will terminate on the date that is one year from the date of such initial Prospectus if the Minimum Offering has not been sold by such date (the “Offering Termination Date”). The Company hereby expressly authorizes Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and, at the Dealer Manager’s sole option, by any Participating Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of the NASD in good standing, pursuant to engage one or more Sub-an executed Dealer Managers in connection Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of the NASD in good standing of FINRA and that standings, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, Commission rules and regulations and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Shares.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Participating Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution offer and sale of the Offered Shares in the Offering(including, including with respect to its engagement without limitation any resales and transfers of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersOffered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Dealer Agreement, each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules Rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingNASD, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 21112420, 23102730, 5110 2740, and 51412750 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations applicable requirements with respect to retail investors that would subject its and each Participating Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees, and each Participating Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the resale or transfer of the Offered Shares, it and each Participating Dealer will fulfill the obligations pursuant to compliance with Regulation Best InterestSections 3(b) and 4(d) of Rule 2810 of the Rules of the NASD.
b. As soon as practicable 4.3 [Reserved.]
4.4 Promptly after the initial Effective Date Time of the initial Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Participating Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permittedOffered Shares. The Dealer Manager Parties shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other states. The Dealer Manager shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offered Shares only the Prospectus and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with offers or sales or the Offered Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and the Participating Dealers will each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Offered Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under 4.5 In consideration for the caption “Plan of Distribution” in services rendered by the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeDealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions (a) a dealer manager fee in connection with sales the amount of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary 2.5% of the gross proceeds of the Offered Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to sold (the “Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary SharesFee”), Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions which Dealer Manager Fee may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager in whole or in part to the Dealers Participating Dealer who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Offered Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, fee (as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Participating Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus), which may reallowance, if any, shall be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed determined by the Dealer Manager in its discretion based on factors including, but not limited to, the extent to which similar fees are reallowed to participating broker-dealers in similar offerings being conducted during the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, Offering Period and (b) except as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the ProspectusProspectus concerning discounts based upon the volume of Offered Shares purchased, selling commissions in the amount of 7% of the gross proceeds of the Offered Shares sold, which commissions may be amended, restated reallowed in whole or supplemented from time to time, subject in part to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Participating Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares Offered Shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to commissions, as described more fully in the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowanceDealer; provided, however, that upon no Dealer Manager Fee shall be payable in respect of the date when sale of DRIP Shares; provided further, however, that no commissions under clause (b) shall be payable in respect of the purchase of Offered Shares by a Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), in its individual capacity, or by a retirement plan of such Participating Dealer (or such Participating Dealer’s registered representative), or by an officer, director or employee of the Company, the Advisor or their respective affiliates; provided further, however, that no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S under this Section 4.5 unless or Class D shares until subscriptions for Offered Shares resulting in gross proceeds of $3,000,000 after giving rise effect to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D any volume discounts (excluding any Offered Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement subscribed for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on by the Company’s books executive officers and records (includingdirectors, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then Advisor and its affiliates and the Dealer or servicing dealer Manager) shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of have been accepted by the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated Company (the “Servicing DealerMinimum Offering”). In addition, to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with Company shall reimburse the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms due diligence expenses of such agreement related up to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.750.5% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement Offered Shares for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretionor any Participating Dealer. For purposes of this Agreement, The Company shall have the portion of right to require that the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares Dealer Manager or any Participating Dealer provide a detailed and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to itemized invoice for any such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offeringdue diligence expenses.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. 4.6 The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees commissions or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Participating Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Dealer Manager Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Participating Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Dealer Manager, the Company, either directly or through the Company Escrow Agent, may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees commissions or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager Fee to such Participating Dealers without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusliability therefor. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant Fee and provide all selling commissions payable to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company Dealer Manager with respect to any Offered Shares sold will be paid or offered substantially concurrently with the acceptance of subscribers for such Offered Shares as stockholders by the Company.
4.7 If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Dealer Manager prior to the Offering Termination Date pursuant to the first sentence of Section 11.1, for a particular Offering hereunder period from the date of termination through the earlier of (a) the date that is one (1) year from the date of termination and (b) the date that is two (2) years from the Effective Date of the initial Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager shall cause total organization and offering expensesbe paid: (a) the Dealer Manager Fee provided in Section 4.5(a) with respect to any Offered Shares which are sold through broker-dealers, or to prospective purchasers, listed on the Termination List (as defined under in Section 11.2); and (b) the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of selling commissions provided in Sections 4.5(b) with respect to any Offered Shares which are sold to prospective purchasers listed on the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingTermination List.
j. 4.8 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company Company, the Operating Partnership and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 4.9 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions the Operating Partnership that it will not represent or imply that the Escrow Agent has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Offered Shares on behalf or the Company, nor will the Dealer Manager use the name of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Offered Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Paladin Realty Income Properties Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of 44,000,000 Shares through Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that the NASD; (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect ; and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable NASD rules, SEC rules and the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 or will require that its Dealers establish such programs, reasonably expected to detect and cause the Dealer Manager’s participation reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the distribution sale of Shares of the Shares in Company. The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound by the Offeringterms of the Escrow Agreement executed as of _______________, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers2005 among ________________, as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with and the applicable requirements Company, a copy of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended which is enclosed (the “Exchange ActEscrow Agreement”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise 3.3 Except as provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to timeas compensation for the services rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section Section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and Prospectus plus a dealer stockholder servicing manager fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between “Plan of Distribution” Section of the Prospectus. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until subscriptions for the purchase of Shares have been accepted by the Company and the applicable Dealer in effect on gross proceeds of the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At Shares sold are disbursed to the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Company pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%paragraph 3(a) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, Escrow Agreement. Until the Required Capital or the Pennsylvania Required Capital (as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares applicable and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth as defined in the Participating Dealer Escrow Agreement) is obtained, any agreement with a Selected RIAinvestments will be held in escrow and, Selected Institution Agreement if the Required Capital or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing DealersPennsylvania Required Capital, as applicable, is not obtained, investments will be returned to the investors in accordance with the Prospectus. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissionscommissions to such Dealers without incurring any liability therefor. With respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition agrees to reduce its dealer manager fee to the other items percentage, if any, of underwriting compensation the gross proceeds of the Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items Plan of underwriting compensation referenced in Distribution” Section of the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA...
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company, each owner, director, officer and employee of the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and all Offering Participantsdistribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Prospectus (as it may be supplemented or amended from time-to-time) and such sales literature and advertising as shall have been previously approved in writing by the Company.
3.6 The Dealer Manager and the Dealers shall cause Shares to be offered and sold only in such jurisdictions where the Dealer Manager and the respective Dealer are licensed to do so. In addition, the Dealer Manager shall cause Shares to be offered and all sold only in those jurisdictions specified in writing by the Company where the offering and sale of its Shares have been authorized by appropriate regulatory authorities and such list of jurisdictions shall be updated by the Company as additional states are added. No Shares shall be offered or sold for the account of the Company in any other broker-dealers effecting transactions jurisdiction.
3.7 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Shares on behalf Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of Offering Participantsinvestment in the Company, will offer and sell or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares at or the public offering prices per share as determined Company, nor will it use the name of said escrow agent in accordance any manner whatsoever in connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgment that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT I, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of up to $2,200,000,000 in Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients and customers and employees (and certain family members) of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect selling commissions in the amount of up to sales 6.0% of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion gross proceeds of the Servicing Fee Shares sold (up to (a) any Dealers who 4.0% of gross proceeds for Shares issued and sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise pursuant to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (includingdividend reinvestment plan), but not limited to, plus a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change dealer manager fee in the form amount of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.752.2% of the gross proceeds from of the sale of such primary shares (including Shares sold to the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely public. No dealer manager fee shall be paid with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Shares sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicabledividend reinvestment plan. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the CompanyIn addition, the Company or its advisor may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced and other expenses relating to the Offering as described in the Prospectus, including but not limited to, reimbursement of up to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations 0.5% of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described in the ProspectusDealer. The Company shall have the right to require the Dealer Manager shall obtain from and any Offering Participant and Dealer to provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for as a condition to any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offeringreimbursement.
j. 3.4 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that who signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participants, warrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and all other approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf dealer use only” materials with members of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance connection with the Prospectusoffer or sale of Shares.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Dealer Manager hereby represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with the Company and the Adviser (provided that, to the extent representations and warranties of the Company and the Adviser are given only as of a specified date or dates, the Dealer Manager only makes such representations and warranties as of such date or dates), as follows:
4.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its non-exclusive agent and principal distributor for during the purpose period commencing with the date hereof and ending on the termination date of selling for cash to the public up to Offering (the maximum amount of Shares set forth “Termination Date”) described in the Prospectus (subject the “Offering Period”) to solicit and to cause Selected Dealers to solicit subscriptions for the Company’s right of reallocationOffered Shares at the subscription price to be paid in accordance with, as described in and otherwise upon the Prospectus) primarily through other terms and conditions set forth in, the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes Prospectus and the Subscription Agreement, and the Dealer Manager agrees to engage one or more Sub-use its best efforts to procure subscribers for the Offered Shares during the Offering Period. The Offered Shares offered and sold through the Dealer Managers Manager under this Agreement shall be offered and sold only by the Dealer Manager and by any Selected Dealers whom the Dealer Manager may retain, each of which shall be members of FINRA in connection good standing, pursuant to an executed Selected Dealer Agreement with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereundersuch Selected Dealer. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Offered Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that (i) it is a member of FINRA in good standing of FINRA and that standing, (ii) it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect Agreement and (iii) it has established and implemented anti-money laundering compliance programs in accordance with applicable law, including applicable FINRA rules, Commission rules and regulations (“Commission Rules”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) of 2001, as amended by the Dealer Manager’s participation in USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, and as further subsequently amended from time to time (the distribution “USA PATRIOT Act”), specifically including, but not limited to, Section 352 of the Shares International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001 (the “Money Laundering Abatement Act” and together with the USA PATRIOT Act, the “AML Rules”) reasonably expected to detect and cause the reporting of suspicious transactions in connection with the Offering, including with respect to its engagement offering and sale of one or more Sub-Dealer Managersthe Offered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager agrees represents that it has established and implemented a program for compliance with Executive Order 13224 and all regulations and programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations (“OFAC Program”) and will continue to maintain its OFAC Program during the term of this Agreement. The Dealer Manager further represents that it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Dealer Manager hereby agrees, upon request of the Company, to provide an annual certification to the Company that, as of the date of such certification (i) its AML Program and its OFAC Program are consistent with the AML Rules and OFAC requirements, (ii) it has continued to implement its AML Program and its OFAC Program, and (iii) it is currently in compliance with all AML Rules and OFAC requirements, specifically including, but not limited to, the Customer Identification Program requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
4.2 With respect to its participation and the participation by each Selected Dealer in the offer and sale of the Offered Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of Offered Shares), the Dealer Manager agrees, and, by virtue of entering into the Selected Dealer Agreement, each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply in all material respects and shall comply with the any applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and RegulationsExchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934rules promulgated under each, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulationslaws, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the OfferingRules, from time to time in effect, specifically including, without limitationbut not in any way limited to, FINRA Rules 20402340, 2111, 2310, 5110 2310 (including the obligations with respect to disclosure of certain information relating to liquidity and marketability of prior programs pursuant to FINRA Rule 2310(b)(3)(D)) and 5141, and NASD Rule 2420 therein. The Dealer Manager will not make agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, to comply and shall comply with any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable after the initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee requirements with respect to sales of Class S its and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described each Selected Dealer’s participation in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all any resales or a portion transfers of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareOffered Shares. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving agrees, and each Selected Dealer shall have agreed, that should it or they assist with the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur resale or transfer of the following: (i) a listing Offered Shares, it and each Selected Dealer will fully comply with all applicable FINRA or Commission Rules or any other applicable Federal or state laws.
4.3 The Dealer Manager shall cause the Offered Shares to be offered and sold only in the Qualified Jurisdictions, and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto in which the offering and sale of Class I shares, (ii) Offered Shares has been authorized by appropriate state regulatory authorities. No Offered Shares shall be offered or sold for the merger or consolidation account of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectusjurisdictions. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Offering Participant Offered Shares only the Prospectus and provide the Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments prospective investors if accompanied or reimbursements made preceded by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expensesProspectus, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.Section 1.1
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (VII Peaks Co-Optivist Income BDC II, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $1.7 billion in Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of FINRA. The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interestconditions.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary SharesManager, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in through the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with the Dealers, shall cause Dealers to agree to deliver to each prospective investor, prior to any submission by such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible prospective investor of a written offer to buy any Shares, a copy of the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer AgreementProspectus.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager, at the time of sale of Shares, sales commissions up to a maximum amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Class T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering. The Company and PXXX-Xxxxxxx REIT Advisor, LLC (the “Advisor”) agree that they will pay to the Dealer Manager an aggregate dealer manager fee up to a maximum amount of (i) 3.0% of gross proceeds of Class T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, 1.0% of which will be funded by the Company and up to 2.0% of which will be funded by the Advisor, and (ii) 1.5% of gross proceeds of Class I Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, all of which will be funded by the Advisor. To the extent that the dealer manager fee is less than 3.0% for any Class T Shares sold and less than 1.5% for any Class I Shares sold, such shares will have a corresponding reduction in the applicable purchase price. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a quarterly stockholder servicing fee with respect in the aggregate amount of up to sales a maximum of 4.0% of gross proceeds of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional T Shares sold in the primary portion of the Offering, which stockholder servicing fee and will accrue daily in an amount equal to 1/365th (1/366th during a dealer leap year) of 1.0% of the purchase price per Share (or, once reported, the amount of the estimated NAV) of Class T Shares sold, excluding Class T Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described Shares held in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall ceaseparticular account, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any those Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account Shares will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Shares determined by multiplying each Class T sharesShare to be converted by the applicable conversion rate as set forth in the Articles Supplementary establishing the rights and privileges of the Class T Shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon on the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of the Class I shares, Shares on a national securities exchange; (ii) the a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity entity, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets assets; (iii) after the termination of the primary portion of the Offering in each case which the initial Class T Shares in the account were sold, the end of the month in which total underwriting compensation paid in the primary portion of the Offering is not less than 10.0% of the gross proceeds of the primary portion of the Offering from the sale of Class T Shares and Class I Shares; and (iv) the end of the month in which the total stockholder servicing fees paid with respect to such Class T Shares purchased in the primary portion of the Offering is not less than 4.0% (or a lower limit described below) of the gross offering price of those Class T Shares purchased in such Offering (excluding shares purchased through the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan). If the Company redeems a portion, but not all of the Class T Shares held in a stockholder’s account, the total stockholder servicing fee limit and amount of stockholder servicing fees previously paid will be prorated between the Class T Shares that were redeemed and those Class T Shares that were retained in the account. Likewise, if a portion of the Class T Shares in a stockholder’s account is sold or otherwise transferred in a secondary transaction, the total stockholder servicing fee limit and amount of stockholder servicing fees previously paid will be prorated between the Class T Shares that were transferred and the Class T Shares that were retained in the account. With respect to item (iv) above, all of the Class T Shares held in a stockholder’s account will automatically convert into Class I Shares as of the last calendar day of the month in which the 4.0% limit on stockholder servicing fees (or a lower limit, provided that, in the case of a lower limit, the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect at the time Class T Shares were first issued to such account sets forth the lower limit and the Dealer Manager advises the Company’s transfer agent of the lower limit in writing) in a particular account is reached. The Company will further cease paying the stockholder servicing fee on any Class T Share that is redeemed or repurchased, as well as upon the Company’s dissolution, liquidation or the winding up of its affairs, or a merger or other extraordinary transaction in which stockholders receive the Company is a party and in which the Class T Shares as a class are exchanged for cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including other securities. No selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal fee or stockholder servicing fee shall be paid with respect to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by pursuant to the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan. In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the Dealer Manager and any Dealers participating in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementthe Offering, including, but not limited to, selling commissions, the dealer manager fee and the stockholder servicing fee (which includes expense reimbursements and non-cash compensation), exceed 10.0% of aggregate gross offering proceeds from the sale of Shares in the primary portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company and the Advisor will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee stockholder servicing fees to such Offering Participant or Servicing any Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee such to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees of stockholder servicing fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales of the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager is a duly organized and validly existing limited liability company under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Dealer Manager is not in violation of its operating agreement.
3.7 No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.8 There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Dealer Manager Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.9 The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.10 The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT III, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interest.
b. As soon as practicable Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. b. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change commissions in the broker-dealer amount of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.756.75% of the gross proceeds from of the sale Shares sold plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 3.0% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were Shares sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP There will be no fees associated with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., Shares sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicabledistribution reinvestment plan. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee commissions to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Companyits discretion, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing such Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liabilityliability therefor.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. c. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. d. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, Dealers will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices price per share set forth in the Prospectus (except as determined otherwise provided in the distribution reinvestment plan). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Shares may be sold to (x) executive officers and directors of the Company and their immediate family members, (y) officers and employees of the Advisor or other affiliates and their immediate family members, and (z) if approved by the Board of Directors of the Company, joint venture partners, consultants and other service providers, at a discount which, as provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, reflects a reduction in (i) the dealer manager fee and/or (ii) the sales commissions otherwise payable with respect to such Shares.
e. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no commissions, payments or amounts whatsoever will be paid to the Dealer Manager under this Section 4 unless or until $2,000,000 has been raised from the sale of Shares in the Offering (the “Minimum Offering Requirement”). Until the Minimum Offering Requirement is obtained, investments will be held in escrow. If the Minimum Offering Requirement is not obtained within the time periods specified in the Prospectus, investments will be returned to the investors in accordance with the Prospectus.
f. No sales commissions will be paid for sales of Shares to retirement plans of participating broker-dealers, to participating broker-dealers in their individual capacities, to IRAs and qualified plans of their registered representatives or to any one of their registered representatives in their individual capacities. No sales commissions will be paid for sales to executive officers and directors of the REIT, as well as officers and employees of the Advisor and its affiliates.
g. In connection with sales of $500,000 or more to a “qualifying purchaser” (as defined below), a Dealer may offer such qualifying purchaser a volume discount by reducing the amount of its selling commissions. Such reduction would be credited to the qualifying purchaser by reducing the total purchase price of the shares payable by the qualifying purchaser. Reduced selling commissions will be paid to the Dealer and reduced per share selling prices shall be offered for large purchases in the primary offering in accordance with the following table: Up to $500,000 6.75 % $ 10.00 $500,001 to $1,000,000 6.0 % $ 9.93 $1,000,001 to $1,500,000 5.0 % $ 9.83 $1,500,001 to $2,000,000 4.0 % $ 9.73 $2,000,001 to $2,500,000 3.0 % $ 9.63 $2,500,001 to $3,000,000 2.0 % $ 9.53 $3,000,001 and over 1.0 % $ 9.44 The term qualifying purchaser includes: • an individual, his or her spouse and members of their immediate families who purchase the shares for his, her or their own accounts; • a corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust fund or any organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not; • an employees’ trust, pension, profit sharing or other employee benefit plan qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code; and • all commingled trust funds maintained by a given bank. The discounts noted in the above table will be applied on a transaction-by-transaction basis and in a progressive fashion.
h. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the event that the Company pays any commission to the Dealer Manager for sale by a Dealer of one or more Shares and the subscription is rescinded as to one or more of the Shares covered by such subscription, the Company shall decrease the next payment of commissions or other compensation otherwise payable to the Dealer Manager by the Company under this Agreement by an amount equal to the commission rate established for such subscription pursuant to this Agreement, multiplied by the number of Shares as to which the subscription is rescinded. In the event that no payment of commissions or other compensation is due to the Dealer Manager after such withdrawal occurs, the Dealer Manager shall pay the amount specified in the preceding sentence to the Company within ten (10) days following receipt of notice by the Dealer Manager from the Company stating the amount owed as a result of rescinded subscriptions.
i. The Company will reimburse the Dealer Manager for legal fees and expenses, travel, food and lodging for employees of the Dealer Manager to sponsor educational meetings, attendance fees and expense reimbursements for broker-dealer sponsored conferences, attendance fees and expenses for industry sponsored conferences, and informational seminars.
j. In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to the Dealer Manager and any Dealers participating in the Offering, including, but not limited to, selling commissions, the marketing support fee and expenses reimbursable pursuant to this Section 4, but excluding due diligence expense reimbursements, exceed 10.0% of gross offering proceeds in the aggregate. In addition, expense reimbursements for bona fide due diligence expenses of the Dealer Manager and any Dealers will not exceed the amount specified in the rules of the NASD.
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Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash to the public up to a maximum of up to $2,200,000,000 in Shares through the maximum amount Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares set forth in for cash directly to its own clients and customers and employees (and certain family members) of the Prospectus (Company and the Dealer Manager and their affiliates subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA the NASD and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestAgreement.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing effective date of the Registration Statement, the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change selling commissions in the broker-dealer amount of record with respect up to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.757.0% of the gross proceeds from of Shares sold to the sale public, plus a dealer manager fee in the amount of such primary shares (including 2.2% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under Shares sold to the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as public. As set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between “Plan of Distribution” section of the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect Prospectus, based on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In additionits historical experience, the Dealer Manager currently estimates that approximately 1.1% in the aggregate will cease receiving be used to pay transaction based compensation to wholesalers and other employees of the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesDealer Manager, Class S shares approximately 1.0% in the aggregate will be reallowed to Dealers as marketing fees, and Class D shares the remaining approximately 0.1% in connection the aggregate will be used to pay other expenses of the Dealer Manager. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with an Offering (i.e., respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicabledividend reinvestment plan. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the CompanyIn addition, the Company or its advisor may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting certain employee compensation referenced and other expenses relating to the Offering as described in the Prospectus, including but not limited to, reimbursement of up to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations 0.5% of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties gross proceeds for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by the Dealer Manager or any Offering Participant as described in the ProspectusDealer. The Company shall have the right to require the Dealer Manager shall obtain from and any Offering Participant and Dealer to provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for as a condition to any such due diligence expensesreimbursement. Notwithstanding anything contained herein The Company may change these commissions and fees, in its discretion, at any time upon 30 days written notice to the contraryDealer Manager, no payments or reimbursements made by in which event the Company Dealer Manager shall so notify the Dealers of such change in accordance with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts terms of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such OfferingSelected Dealer Agreements.
j. 3.4 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that who signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto Authorized Sales Materials does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company or use any “broker-dealer use only” materials with members of the public in connection with the offer or sale of Shares. The Dealer Manager further represents and warrants to the Company that it shall promptly (i) notify the Dealers of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus or Authorized Sales Materials, and all other (ii) supply the Dealers with reasonable quantities of the Prospectus, any Authorized Sales Materials and any supplements or amendments thereto, to the extent provided to the Dealer Manager by the Company. In addition, the Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that, in connection with the sale of Shares to customers of the Dealer Manager in transactions pursuant to which the Dealer Manager rather than a Dealer is acting as the broker-dealers effecting transactions in dealer of record, it will deliver a copy of the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell Prospectus as provided to the Shares at Dealer Manager by the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance Company from time to time prior to or simultaneously with the Prospectusfirst solicitation of an offer to sell Shares to an investor in connection with the offer or sale of Shares.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor during the Offering to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of selling for cash to Shares upon the public up to the maximum amount of Shares other terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus (subject to Private Placement Memorandum and the Company’s right of reallocation, as described in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunderSubscription Agreement. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell procure subscribers for the Shares primarily during the Offering, including through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeParticipating Broker-Dealers. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Agreement. With respect to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution of the Shares in the Offering, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer Managers, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply comply, and ensure that the Participating Broker-Dealers comply, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. .
b. The Dealer Manager will not make shall comply, and require in the Participating Dealer Agreement that the Participating Broker-Dealers comply, with (a) the privacy standards and requirements of the GLB Act; (b) the privacy standards and requirements of any recommendations other applicable federal or state law; and (c) its own internal privacy policies and procedures, each as may be amended from time to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best Interesttime.
b. As soon as practicable c. Promptly after the initial Effective Date execution of the Registration Statementthis Agreement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Participating Broker-Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in such jurisdictions in which the Offering is permitted.
d. The Dealer Manager shall cause the Shares are registered to be offered and sold only in each jurisdiction designated in Schedule II hereto as “Qualified Jurisdictions,” and in such additional jurisdictions as may be added thereto from time to time. No Shares shall be offered or qualified sold for sale or the account of the Company in which such offering is otherwise permittedany other jurisdictions. The Dealer Manager Parties shall use and distribute in conjunction with the offer and sale of any Shares only the Private Placement Memorandum and the Offering Participants Authorized Sales Materials. The Authorized Sales Materials may only be furnished to prospective investors if accompanied or preceded by the Private Placement Memorandum. The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will immediately not (i) use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company; (ii) use any “broker-dealer use only” or “advisor use only” materials with prospective investors in connection with offers or sales of the Shares; or (iii) offer or sell Shares by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertisement, including but not limited to (A) any advertisement, article, notice or other communication published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio and (B) any seminar or meeting whose attendees have been invited by any general solicitation or general advertising. The Dealer Manager agrees to comply with all applicable requirements under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, conduct rules and/or regulations promulgated by FINRA or its predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”), and any other foreign, state or local securities or other laws or rules of FINRA or any other applicable self-regulatory organization in offering and selling Shares. The Dealer Manager agrees, and will cause the Participating Broker-Dealers to each agree, to suspend or terminate offering and sale of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will to resume offering and sale of the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. e. Subject to volume discounts discounts, [fee caps] and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the ProspectusPrivate Placement Memorandum, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary F-S Shares, Class F-D Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 1 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary F-S Shares, Class F-D Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Participating Broker-Dealers who sold the Class T Primary F-S Shares, Class F-D Shares, Class S Primary Shares or and Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Participating Broker-Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. Except as may be provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. below, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager a stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75% of the gross proceeds from the sale of such primary shares (including the gross proceeds of any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto), or, solely with respect to Class T shares, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and the applicable Dealer in effect on the date upon which such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such share. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving the Servicing Fee on Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection with an Offering (i.e., pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) the date following the completion of such Offering on which, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling commissions, dealer manager fees, the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Shares sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreement, the portion of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares and Class D shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicable. The Company will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. The Dealer Manager Parties and all Offering Participants, and all other broker-dealers effecting transactions in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with the Prospectus.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Franklin BSP Real Estate Debt, Inc.)
Obligations and Compensation of Dealer Manager. a. 3.1 The Company hereby appoints the Dealer Manager as its agent and principal distributor for the purpose of selling for cash up to a maximum of $3.15 billion in Shares through the Dealers, all of whom shall be members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Dealer Manager may also sell Shares for cash directly to its own clients and customers at the public up to the maximum amount of Shares set forth in the Prospectus (offering price and subject to the Company’s right of reallocation, as described terms and conditions stated in the Prospectus) primarily through the Offering Participants. The Company hereby expressly authorizes the Dealer Manager to engage one or more Sub-Dealer Managers in connection with the performance of its roles and responsibilities as agent and distributor set forth hereunder. The Dealer Manager hereby accepts such agency and distributorship and agrees to use its best efforts to sell the Shares primarily through the Offering Participants on said terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus with respect to each Offering and any additional terms or conditions specified in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, as it may be amended from time to timeconditions. The Dealer Manager represents to the Company that it is a member in good standing of FINRA and that it and its employees and representatives have all required licenses and registrations to act under this Dealer Manager Agreement. With respect The Dealer Manager agrees to be bound to the Dealer Manager’s participation in the distribution terms of the Shares in the OfferingEscrow Agreement executed by and among UMB Bank, including with respect to its engagement of one or more Sub-Dealer ManagersN.A., as escrow agent, the Dealer Manager agrees to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other state or federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to the Offering and the sale of Shares, all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and regulations, and the rules of FINRA applicable to the Offering, from time to time in effect, including, without limitation, FINRA Rules 2040, 2111, 2310, 5110 and 5141. The Dealer Manager will not make any recommendations to retail investors that would subject the Dealer Manager to compliance with Regulation Best InterestCompany.
b. As soon as practicable 3.2 Promptly after the initial Effective Date effective date of the Registration Statement, but in no event prior to the Company instructing the Dealer Manager and the Offering Participant to commence such Offering, the Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers shall commence the offering of the Shares in the Offering for cash to the public in jurisdictions in which the Shares are registered or qualified for sale or in which such offering is otherwise permitted. The Dealer Manager Parties and the Offering Participants Dealers will immediately suspend or terminate offering of the Shares upon request of the Company at any time and will resume offering the Shares upon subsequent request of the Company.
c. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager selling commissions in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable selling commissions payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares and Class D Primary Shares and all or a portion of the selling commissions may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares, Class S Primary Shares or Class D Primary Shares giving rise to such selling commissions, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required selling commissions as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
d. Subject to volume discounts and other special circumstances described in or otherwise provided in this Agreement and under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus, which may be amended and restated from time to time, the Company will pay to the Dealer Manager dealer manager fees in connection with sales of Class T Primary Shares, as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The applicable dealer manager fees payable to the Dealer Manager will be paid substantially concurrently with the execution by the Company of orders submitted by purchasers of Class T Primary Shares and all or a portion of the dealer manager fees may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager to the Dealers who sold the Class T Primary Shares giving rise to such dealer manager fees, as described more fully in the Participating Dealer Agreement entered into with each such Dealer. The Dealer Manager shall not be responsible to the Company for failure by a Dealer to return any required dealer manager fees as set forth in Section “VI. Right to Reject Orders or Cancel Sales” in the Participating Dealer Agreement.
e. 3.3 Except as may be otherwise provided in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the Prospectus, which may be amended, restated or supplemented from time to time, subject to as compensation for the limitations set forth in Section 3.f. belowservices rendered by the Dealer Manager, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager, at the time of the sale of Shares pursuant to the primary offering, selling commissions in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the primary offering, and the Company and Xxxxxxx-American Healthcare REIT 4 Advisor, LLC (the “Advisor”) agree that they will pay to the Dealer Manager, at the time of the sale of Shares pursuant to the primary offering, an aggregate dealer manager fee in the amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold in the primary offering, of which 1.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold in the primary offering will be funded by the Company and 2.0% of the gross proceeds of Shares sold in the primary offering will be funded by the Advisor. In addition, the Company agrees that it will pay to the Dealer Manager a quarterly stockholder servicing fee in the aggregate amount of up to 4.0% of the gross proceeds of the Shares sold in the primary offering, which stockholder servicing fee will accrue daily in an amount equal to 1/365th of 1.0% of the purchase price per share (or, once reported by the Company, the amount of the Company’s estimated net asset value per share) of Shares sold, excluding Shares sold pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan. The Company will cease paying the stockholder servicing fee with respect to sales of Class S and Class D shares and an investment professional stockholder servicing fee and a dealer stockholder servicing fee with respect to Class T shares, all as described in Schedule 2 to this Agreement (the “Servicing Fee”). The Company will pay the Servicing Fee to the Dealer Manager monthly in arrears. The Dealer Manager may reallow all or a portion of the Servicing Fee to (a) any Dealers who Shares sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the Participating Dealer Agreement with such Dealer provides for such a reallowance and such Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such Participating Dealer Agreement related to such reallowance, or (b) the broker-dealer of record/custodian for any Selected RIA or Selected Institution whose clients purchased Class D shares (each a “servicing dealer”) giving rise to a portion of such Servicing Fee to the extent the agreement between or among the Dealer Manager, the broker-dealer of record/custodian and/or the Selected RIA or Selected Institution, as applicable, provides for such a reallowance and such parties are in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance; provided, however, that upon the date when the Dealer Manager is notified that the Dealer who sold the Class T, Class S or Class D shares giving rise to a portion of the Servicing Fee or a servicing dealer with respect to Class D shares is no longer the broker-dealer of record with respect to such Class T, Class S or Class D Shares or that the Dealer, Selected RIA, Selected Institution or servicing dealer no longer satisfies any or all of the conditions in its applicable agreement for the receipt of the Servicing Fee, then such Dealer or servicing dealer’s entitlement to the Servicing Fees related to such Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, shall cease, and such Dealer or servicing dealer shall not receive the Servicing Fee for any portion of the month in which it is not eligible on the last day of the month; provided, however, if there is a change in the broker-dealer Offering at the earliest of record with respect to the Class T, Class S or Class D shares, as applicable, made in connection with a change in the registration of record for the Class T, Class S or Class D shares on the Company’s books and records (including, but not limited to, a reregistration due to a sale or a transfer or a change in the form of ownership of the account), then the Dealer or servicing dealer shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the Servicing Fees related to the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, for the portion of the month for which the Dealer or servicing dealer was the broker-dealer or custodian of record. Thereafter, such Servicing Fees may be reallowed to the then-current broker-dealer of record of the Class T, Class S and/or Class D shares, as applicable, if any such broker-dealer of record has been designated (the “Servicing Dealer”), to the extent such Servicing Dealer has entered into a Participating Dealer Agreement or similar agreement with the Dealer Manager (“Servicing Agreement”), such Participating Dealer Agreement or Servicing Agreement with the Servicing Dealer provides for such reallowance and the Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance. In this regard, all determinations will be made by the Dealer Manager in good faith in its sole discretion. Offering Participants are not entitled to any Servicing Fee with respect to Class I shares. The Dealer Manager may also reallow some or all of the Servicing Fee to other broker-dealers who provide services with respect to the Shares (who shall be considered additional Servicing Dealers) pursuant to a Servicing Agreement with the Dealer Manager to the extent such Servicing Agreement provides for such reallowance and such additional Servicing Dealer is in compliance with the terms of such agreement related to such reallowance, in accordance with the terms of such Servicing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Dealer Manager may waive the Servicing Fee to the extent Dealer or Servicing Dealer no longer provides services with respect to the Shares and (ii) the Company agrees that it will not deem the Dealer Manager to be the broker-dealer of record in situations described in this Section 3.e unless expressly agreed to in writing by the Dealer Manager.
f. The Dealer Manager shall cease receiving the Servicing Fee with respect to any Class T share, Class S share or Class D share purchased in the Primary Offering and held in a stockholder’s account date at the end of the month in which the Dealer Manager, in conjunction with the transfer agent, determines that total selling commissions, dealer manager fees and Servicing Fees paid with respect to the shares held within such account would exceed, in the aggregate, 8.75aggregate underwriting compensation from all sources equals 10.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of Shares in the primary portion of the Offering, (i.e., excluding proceeds from sales pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan); (ii) the fourth anniversary of the last day of the fiscal quarter in which the Offering (excluding the distribution reinvestment plan offering) terminates; (iii) the date that such primary Share is redeemed or is no longer outstanding; and (iv) the occurrence of a merger of the Company, listing of the Shares on a national securities exchange, or an extraordinary transaction by the Company. The stockholder servicing fee relates to the share or shares (including sold. The Dealer Manager may, in its discretion, re-allow to Dealers up to 100% of the gross proceeds of any shares issued under stockholder servicing fee for services that such Dealers perform in connection with the DRIP with respect thereto)Shares; provided, orhowever, solely that with respect to Class T sharesany individual investment, a lower limit as set forth in the Participating Dealer Agreement between the Dealer Manager and will not re-allow the applicable related stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer in effect on if such Dealer ceases to hold the date upon which account related to such Class T shares were sold. At the end of such month, such Class T share, Class S share or Class D share (and any shares issued under the DRIP with respect thereto) held in a stockholder’s account will convert into a number of Class I shares (including any fractional shares) with an equivalent aggregate NAV as such shareinvestment. In addition, the Dealer Manager will cease receiving not re-allow the Servicing Fee on Class T sharesstockholder servicing fee to any Dealer if such Dealer has not executed a Participating Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager or if the Dealer’s previously executed Participating Dealer Agreement with the Dealer Manager is terminated. In any instance in which the Dealer Manager does not re-allow the stockholder servicing fee to a Dealer, Class S shares and Class D shares in connection the Dealer Manager will return such fee to the Company. No selling commissions or dealer manager fee shall be paid with an Offering (i.e., respect to Shares sold pursuant to the Registration Statement for such Offering) upon the earlier to occur of the following: (i) a listing of Class I shares, (ii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in each case in a transaction in which stockholders receive cash and/or securities listed on a national stock exchange or (iii) distribution reinvestment plan. Notwithstanding the date following the completion of such Offering on whichforegoing, in the aggregate, underwriting compensation from all sources in connection with such Offering, including selling no commissions, dealer manager fees, payments or amount whatsoever will be paid to the Servicing Fee and other underwriting compensation, is equal to ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds from Primary Dealer Manager under this Section 3.3 unless or until $2,000,000 in Shares have been sold in such Offering, as determined in good faith by the Dealer Manager and its Dealers (the “Minimum Offering”). Until the Minimum Offering is obtained, proceeds from the sale of Shares will be held in its sole discretion. For purposes of this Agreementescrow and, if the portion Minimum Offering is not obtained, will be returned to the investors in accordance with the terms of the Servicing Fee accruing with respect Prospectus. In no event shall the total aggregate underwriting compensation payable to publicly registered Class T shares, Class S shares the Dealer Manager and Class D shares of any Dealers participating in the Company’s common stock issued by the Company during the term of a particular Offering, including, but not limited to, selling commissions and not issued pursuant to a prior Offering, shall be underwriting compensation with respect to such particular Offering and not with respect to any other Offering.
g. The terms of any reallowance of selling commissions, the dealer manager fees fee (which includes expense reimbursements and the Servicing Fee shall be set forth non-cash compensation), exceed 10.0% of gross offering proceeds in the Participating Dealer Agreement, any agreement with a Selected RIA, Selected Institution Agreement or Servicing Agreement entered into with the Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers, as applicableaggregate. The Company and the Advisor will not be liable or responsible to any Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer for direct payment of commissions, or commissions to any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to such Offering Participant or Servicing Dealer, as applicable, it being the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Dealer Manager for payment of commissions or any reallowance of dealer manager fees or the Servicing Fee to Offering Participants and Servicing Dealers. Notwithstanding the foregoingabove, at the discretion of the Company, the Company may act as agent of the Dealer Manager by making direct payment of commissions, dealer manager fees or Servicing Fees commissions to Offering Participants or Servicing Dealers on behalf of the Dealer Manager without incurring any liability.
h. In addition to the other items of underwriting compensation set forth in this Section 3, the Company and/or BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership (the “Adviser”) shall reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for all items of underwriting compensation referenced in the Prospectus, to the extent the Prospectus indicates that they will be paid by the Company or the Adviser, as applicable, and to the extent permitted pursuant to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA.
i. In addition to reimbursement as provided under Section 3.h., and subject to prevailing rules and regulations of FINRA, the Company shall also pay directly or reimburse the Dealer Manager Parties for reasonable bona fide due diligence expenses incurred by any Offering Participant as described in the Prospectus. 3.4 The Dealer Manager shall obtain from any Offering Participant and provide to the Company a detailed and itemized invoice for any such due diligence expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no payments or reimbursements made by the Company with respect to a particular Offering hereunder shall cause total organization and offering expenses, as defined under the Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (as amended from time to time, the “NASAA Guidelines”), and FINRA rules, to exceed 15% of gross proceeds from such Offering.
j. The Dealer Manager Parties represents and warrants to the Company and each person and firm that signs the Registration Statement that the information under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus and all other information furnished to the Company by the Dealer Manager Parties in writing expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto thereto, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
k. 3.5 The Dealer Manager Parties represents and all Offering Participantswarrants to the Company that it will not use any sales literature not authorized and approved by the Company, and all other use any “broker-dealers effecting transactions dealer use only” materials with members of the public, or make any unauthorized verbal representations in connection with offers or sales or the Shares.
3.6 The Dealer Manager is a duly incorporated and validly existing corporation under the laws of the State of California. The Dealer Manager is not in violation of its Articles of Incorporation or its Bylaws.
3.7 No consent, approval, authorization or other order of any governmental authority is required in connection with the execution or delivery by the Dealer Manager of this Dealer Manager Agreement, except such as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
3.8 There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or to the knowledge of the Dealer Manager, threatened against the Dealer Manager at law or in equity or before or by any federal or state commission, regulatory body or administrative agency or other governmental body, domestic or foreign, which could be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the Dealer Manager or the ability of the Dealer Manager to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to participate in the Shares on behalf of Offering Participants, will offer and sell the Shares at the public offering prices per share as determined in accordance with contemplated by the Prospectus.
3.9 The execution and delivery of this Dealer Manager Agreement, the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and compliance with the terms of this Dealer Manager Agreement by the Dealer Manager will not conflict with or constitute a default under any operating agreement or other similar agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, rule, regulation, writ, injunction or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Dealer Manager, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.10 The Dealer Manager has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Dealer Manager Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity and/or contribution provisions contained in Section 4 of this Dealer Manager Agreement may be limited under applicable securities laws.
3.11 Except for Participating Dealer Agreements, no agreement will be made by the Dealer Manager with any person permitting the resale, repurchase or distribution of any Shares purchased by such person.
3.12 The Dealer Manager represents and warrants to the Company that it will not represent or imply that the escrow agent, as identified in the Prospectus, has investigated the desirability or advisability of investment in the Company, or has approved, endorsed or passed upon the merits of the Shares or the Company, nor will they use the name of said escrow agent in any manner whatsoever in connection with the offer or sale of the Shares other than by acknowledgement that it has agreed to serve as escrow agent.
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Samples: Dealer Manager Agreement (Griffin-American Healthcare REIT 4, Inc.)