Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act. B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied: (a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or (b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Digital Realty Trust, L.P.), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Digital Realty Trust, L.P.), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Digital Realty Trust, L.P.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, Partners which may be given or withheld by each such Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1; provided, however, that, subject to Sections 11.2.B, 11.2.C, 11.2.D and 11.2.E, the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership and transfer all of its interest upon the merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets of the General Partner without the consent of any Limited Partners. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The Neither the General Partner shall not nor the Partnership may engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or effect any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests interests, and the General Partner may not sell all or substantially all of its assets (“each a "Termination Transaction”") unless (1) in connection with the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent all holders of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners Partnership Units either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Share Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a the holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if. If, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall will receive, or shall will have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right rights to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such offer. The PLPs shall have the benefit of the foregoing provisions with respect to all of their Performance Units, notwithstanding the limitation set forth in Section 8.6.A on a PLPs ability to exercise its rights to a Redemption.
C. A Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) may also occur if the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership Partnership, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving PartnershipPartnership (except, as to Performance Units, for such differences with Partnership Units regarding liquidation, Redemption and exchange as are set forth herein); and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners Partners, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a)11.2.B; or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C the determination of relative fair market values and rights, preferences and privileges of the Limited Partners shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner's Board of Directors as of the time of the Termination Transaction and, to the extent applicable, the values shall be no less favorable to the holders of Partnership Units than the relative values reflected in the terms of the Termination Transaction.
E. In the event of a Termination Transaction, the arrangements with respect to Performance Units and Performance Shares will be equitably adjusted to reflect the terms of the transaction, including, to the extent that the REIT Shares are exchanged for consideration other than publicly traded common equity, the transfer or release of remaining Performance Shares pursuant to the Escrow Agreements, and resulting issuance of any Performance Units as set forth in Section 4.3.F.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Amb Property Lp), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Amb Property Corp), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Amb Property Corp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1.C above and Section 11.2.C below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission discretion of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1such Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The C. Notwithstanding Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not engage may Transfer its Interest in connection with any merger, consolidation merger or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesParent.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Extra Space Storage Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement, Agreement of Limited Partnership (Extra Space Storage Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the Sections 11.2B and 11.2C hereof.
B. The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. C. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination may merge with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with entity if immediately after such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) merger substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the surviving entity General Partner, are held directly or indirectly by contributed to the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesUnits.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Aimco Properties L.P.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Aimco OP L.P.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Apartment Income REIT Corp.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. 11.2.1 The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in this Section 11.2.
11.2.2 Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.2.2 and Section 11.2.3 below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.2, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The 11.2.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 11 (other than Section 11.6.3 hereof), the Partnership Interests of the General Partner may be Transferred, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, to any Person that is, at the time of such Transfer, a Qualified REIT Subsidiary. Any transferee of the entire General Partner Interest pursuant to this Section 11.2.3 shall automatically become, without further action or Consent of any Limited Partners, the sole general partner of the Partnership, subject to all the rights, privileges, duties and obligations under this Agreement and the Act relating to a general partner. Upon any Transfer permitted by this Section 11.2.3, the transferor Partner shall be relieved of all its obligations under this Agreement. The provisions of Section 11.2.2 (other than the last sentence thereof), 11.3, 11.4.1 and 11.5 hereof shall not engage in apply to any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved Transfer permitted by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:this Section 11.2.3.
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive11.2.4 Notwithstanding Section 11.2.2, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which General Partner may merge with another entity if immediately after such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) merger substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the surviving entity General Partner, are held directly or indirectly by contributed to the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesUnits.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Pacific Office Properties Trust, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Arizona Land Income Corp), Limited Partnership Agreement (Arizona Land Income Corp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, Partners which may be given or withheld by each such Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1; provided, however, that, subject to Sections 11.2.B, 11.2.C, 11.2.D and 11.2.E, the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership and transfer all of its interest upon the merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets of the General Partner without the consent of any Limited Partners. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The Neither the General Partner shall not nor the Partnership may engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or effect any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests interests, and the General Partner may not sell all or substantially all of its assets (each a “Termination Transaction”) unless (1) in connection with the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent all holders of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners Partnership Units either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Share Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a the holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if. If, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall will receive, or shall will have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right rights to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such offer. The PLPs shall have the benefit of the foregoing provisions with respect to all of their Performance Units, notwithstanding the limitation set forth in Section 8.6.A on a PLPs ability to exercise its rights to a Redemption.
C. A Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) may also occur if the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership Partnership, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving PartnershipPartnership (except, as to Performance Units, for such differences with Partnership Units regarding liquidation, Redemption and exchange as are set forth herein); and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners Partners, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a)11.2.B; or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C the determination of relative fair market values and rights, preferences and privileges of the Limited Partners shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner’s Board of Directors as of the time of the Termination Transaction and, to the extent applicable, the values shall be no less favorable to the holders of Partnership Units than the relative values reflected in the terms of the Termination Transaction.
E. In the event of a Termination Transaction, the arrangements with respect to Performance Units and Performance Shares will be equitably adjusted to reflect the terms of the transaction, including, to the extent that the REIT Shares are exchanged for consideration other than publicly traded common equity, the transfer or release of remaining Performance Shares pursuant to the Escrow Agreements, and resulting issuance of any Performance Units as set forth in Section 4.3.F.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Prologis, L.P.), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Amb Property Corp), Limited Partnership Agreement (Amb Property Lp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except (a) The General Partner may not transfer any of its Partnership Interests except in connection with (i) a Termination Transaction transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise11.02(b), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of (ii) any merger (including a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any triangular merger), consolidation or other combination with or into another personPerson following the consummation of which the equity holders of the surviving entity are substantially identical to the members of the General Partner, (iii) a transfer to a Qualified REIT Subsidiary or (iv) as otherwise expressly permitted under this Agreement, nor shall the General Partner withdraw as General Partner except in connection with a transaction permitted under Section 11.02(b) or any merger, consolidation, or other combination permitted under clause (ii) of this Section 11.02(a).
(b) The General Partner shall not, without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, engage in any merger (including, without limitation, a triangular merger), consolidation or other combination with or into another Person (other than any transaction permitted by Section 11.02(a)), sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests REIT Shares (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination as described in the definition of “Adjustment Factor”) (“Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1i) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent following such merger or other consolidation, substantially all of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) assets of the surviving entity consist of Partnership Units or (b) below is satisfied:
(aii) in connection with such Termination Transaction which (A) all Limited Partners (other than the General Partner and the Class A Special Unit Holder) who hold Partnership Units either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, REIT Shares or other property securities having a fair market value, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the General Partner, equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest highest amount of cash, securities or other property consideration paid to a holder in respect of one each REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, however, that, if, if in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) the percentage required for the approval of mergers under the organizational documents of the outstanding REIT SharesGeneral Partner, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receivereceive without any right of Consent set forth above in this Section 11.02(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, REIT Shares or other property securities which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to the Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) Right and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer offer, and then (B) the Class A Special Unit Holder shall receive in such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; ortransaction an amount of cash, REIT Shares or other securities having a fair market value equal to Class A Special Unit Value.
(bc) The General Partner shall not enter into an agreement or other arrangement providing for or facilitating the following conditions are met: (i) substantially creation of a General Partner other than the General Partner, unless the successor General Partner executes and delivers a counterpart to this Agreement in which such General Partner agrees to be fully bound by all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity terms and conditions contained herein that are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesa General Partner.
Appears in 5 contracts
Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Ready Capital Corp), Limited Partnership Agreement (ZAIS Financial Corp.), Agreement and Plan of Merger (ZAIS Financial Corp.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1.C above and Section 11.2.C below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The C. Notwithstanding Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination may merge with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with entity if immediately after such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) merger substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the surviving entity General Partner, are held directly or indirectly by contributed to the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesUnits.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Hilltop Holdings Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Newkirk Realty Trust, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Affordable Residential Communities Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the Sections 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof.
B. The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. C. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination may merge with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with entity if immediately after such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) merger substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the surviving entity General Partner, are held directly or indirectly by contributed to the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesUnits.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Apartment Investment & Management Co), Limited Partnership Agreement (Aimco Properties Lp), Limited Partnership Agreement (Aimco Properties Lp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Subject to Section 11.2.B11.2.B., the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer sell, assign, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.A, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any such transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity Bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority In Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, the General Partner may, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, effect a transfer of up to one-third (1/3) of its original General Partner Interest, to one or more transferees subject to the following restrictions and limitations:
(1) The General Partner shall at all times after such transfer continue to be the sole general partner of the Partnership, vested with the powers and rights and liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of same which powers, rights, obligations and duties may not engage in be delegated or assigned;
(2) The transferee shall receive only the economic interest of the General Partnership Interest as an assignee, including the right to receive distributions from the Partnership and the share of Net Income, Net Losses, gain and loss attributable to the Partnership Units assigned to such transferee, but shall not be deemed to be a holder of Partnership Units for any other purpose under this Agreement, and shall not be entitled to effect a Consent with respect to such Partnership Units on any matter presented to Partners for approval and shall not be counted as a Limited Partner for purposes of determining the Consent of the Limited Partners or the Majority In Interest of the Limited Partners. The transferee shall be admitted as a substitute or additional General Partner only upon receipt of the Consent of the Limited Partners therefor.
(3) Such transfer shall not be effected by merger, consolidation consolidation, liquidation, or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesGeneral Partner.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (National Golf Properties Inc), Agreement of Limited Partnership (National Golf Properties Inc), Limited Partnership Agreement (National Golf Properties Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent consent of all of the Holders of Class A Common Limited PartnersPartnership Units, which may be given or withheld by each Holder of Class A Common Limited Partner Partnership Units in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Class A Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity Bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Class A Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Tanger Properties LTD Partnership /Nc/), Limited Partnership Agreement (Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc), Limited Partnership Agreement (Tanger Properties LTD Partnership /Nc/)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B(a) The General Partner may transfer all, but not less than all, of its Partnership Interest as the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership to a single transferee if, but only if, (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent i) at least 66 2⁄3% of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld Outstanding Units (excluding for purposes of such determination any Common Units held by each Limited the General Partner in and its sole Affiliates and absolute discretion, the number of I-Units that equal the number of Listed Shares and only upon Voting Shares held by the General Partner and its Affiliates) and a majority of the Outstanding I-Units voting as a separate class (excluding for purposes of such determination the number of I-Units that equal the number of Listed Shares and Voting Shares held by the General Partner and its Affiliates) approve of such transfer and of the admission of a successor such transferee as General Partner, (ii) the transferee agrees to assume the rights and duties of the General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with and be bound by the provisions of this Section 11.2Agreement and the Delegation of Control Agreement, (iii) the Partnership receives an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer would not result in the loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or of any limited partner or member of any Subsidiary or cause the Partnership or any Subsidiary to be taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes and (iv) the Partnership receives a duly executed irrevocable waiver from the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with substantially similar to the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions Waiver.
(b) Neither Section 11.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement with respect shall be construed to prevent (and all Partners do hereby consent to) (i) the transfer by the General Partner of all of its Partnership Interest so acquired. It is as a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred an Affiliate or (ii) the transfer by the General Partner of all its Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to Interest as a statutory General Partner upon its merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other Person or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassificationto another Person if, recapitalization or change in the case of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) transfer described in either clause (ai) or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection of this sentence, the rights and duties of the General Partner with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal respect to the product of Partnership Interest so transferred are assumed by the REIT Shares Amount transferee and the greatest amount transferee agrees to be bound by the provisions of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transactionthis Agreement; provided, that, ifin either such case, such transferee furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with a loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or of any limited partner or member of any Subsidiary or cause the Termination Transaction, Partnership or any Subsidiary to be taxable as a purchase, tender corporation or exchange offer shall have been made otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes. In the case of a transfer pursuant to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receivethis Section 11.2(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Enbridge Energy Partners Lp), Contribution Agreement (Enbridge Energy Partners Lp), Limited Partnership Agreement (Enbridge Energy Partners Lp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, Partners which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1; provided, however, that, subject to Sections 11.2.B, 11.2.C, 11.2.D and 11.2.E, the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership and transfer all of its interest upon the merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets of the General Partner without the consent of any Limited Partners. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.remaining
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Amb Property Corp), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Amb Property Corp), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Amb Property Corp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except as otherwise provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under this Section 11.2.B11.2, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in his, her or its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a majority in interest of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) or, except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of for one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, that, that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder Holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(b) C. The General Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the following conditions are metrequirements of Section 11.2.B hereof if: (i) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Partnership Units held by such General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Limited Partners own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders the Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or 11.2.B, (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, transaction or (c) if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D) and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C, the relative fair market values and the rights, preferences and privileges of Limited Partners shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Shearson American REIT, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Excel Trust, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Excel Trust, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof. The term “Transfer,” when used in this Section 11.2 with respect to the General Partner Interest, shall be deemed to include a Transfer of the General Partner Interest resulting from any merger, consolidation or other combination by the Special Limited Partner with or into another Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Special Limited Partner) or the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Special Limited Partner and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, but shall exclude transactions described in Section 11.3.B hereof.
B. Except as provided in connection with Section 11.1.C, this Section 11.2.B and Section 11.2.C hereof, and subject to the rights of any Holder of any Partnership Interest set forth in a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.BPartnership Unit Designation, the General Partner shall may not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership Interest (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission . It is a condition to any Transfer of a successor Partnership Interest of a General Partner otherwise permitted hereunder (including any Transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 11.2.B) that: (i) coincident with such Transfer, the transferee is admitted as a General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, 12.1 hereof; (ii) the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all purposes herein, and shall be vested with of the powers and rights obligations of the transferor General Partner, Partner under this Agreement with respect to such Transferred Partnership Interest; and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of (iii) the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is acquired and the admission of such transferee as a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner.
C. The General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestmay, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In merge with another entity if immediately after such merger substantially all the event assets of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner withdraws from Interest held by the PartnershipGeneral Partner, are contributed to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in violation of exchange for Partnership Units.
D. Except in connection with Transfers permitted in this Agreement or otherwise, or Article 11 and as otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon provided in Section 12.1 in connection with the Incapacity Transfer of the General Partner’s entire Partnership Interest, all the General Partner may not voluntarily withdraw as a general partner of the remaining Partners may elect to continue Partnership without the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesPartners.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in his, her or its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, Partnership in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the period commencing upon and continuing after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2)(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (BioMed Realty Trust Inc), Agreement of Limited Partnership (BioMed Realty Trust Inc), Agreement of Limited Partnership (BioMed Realty Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1and
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Dupont Fabros Technology, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Digital Realty Trust, L.P.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the period commencing upon and continuing after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2)(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Partnership Agreement (Thomas Properties Group Inc), Limited Partnership Agreement (Thomas Properties Group Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, Partners which may be given or withheld by each such Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1; provided, however, that, subject to Sections 11.2.B, 11.2.C, 11.2.D and 11.2.E, the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership and transfer all of its interest upon the merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets of the General Partner without the consent of any Limited Partners. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.its
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Amb Property Lp), Limited Partnership Agreement (Amb Property Corp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. (a) Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under this Section 11.2.B11.2, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership Interest (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission discretion of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1such Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2(a), the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The (b) Notwithstanding Section 11.2(a), the General Partner shall not engage may, without the consent of the Limited Partners, Transfer its General Partner Interest in connection with any merger, consolidation consolidation, share exchange or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its the assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent stock of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfiedGeneral Partner if:
(ai) in connection with as a result of such Termination Transaction transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common OP Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal in value to the product of the REIT Shares Amount Adjustment Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid in such transaction to a holder of one (1) REIT Share in consideration of one (1) REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transactionshare; provided, that, provided that if, in connection with the Termination Transactionsuch transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) % of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common OP Units shall receive, or shall have be given the right option to elect to receive, exchange its OP Units for the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder that a Limited Partner would have received had it (A) exercised its Redemption right pursuant to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.68.6(a) and received (B) sold, tendered or exchanged pursuant to the offer such REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units received upon exercise of the Redemption right immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummatedthe offer; or
(bii) the following conditions are met: General Partner is the surviving entity in such transaction and either (A) the holders of REIT Shares do not receive cash, securities or other property in the transaction or (B) all holders of OP Units (other than the General Partner or any Subsidiary) receive for each OP Unit an amount of cash, securities or other property having a value (expressed as an amount per REIT Share) that is no less than the product of the Adjustment Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property (expressed as an amount per REIT Share) received in such transaction by any holder of REIT Shares.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 11.2(a) and (b), the General Partner may merge with or into or consolidate with another entity if immediately after such merger or consolidation (i) substantially all of the assets of the successor or surviving entity (the “Survivor”), other than Partnership Units held by the General Partner, are contributed, directly or indirectly owned indirectly, to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership Units with a fair market value equal to the value of the assets so contributed as determined by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (Survivor in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); good faith and (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest Survivor expressly agrees to assume all obligations of the Surviving Partnership based on General Partner hereunder. Upon such contribution and assumption, the relative fair market value Survivor shall, without limiting the provisions of Section 14.1(a), have the right and duty to amend this Agreement as set forth in this Section 11.2(c). The Survivor shall in good faith arrive at a new method for the calculation of the net assets Adjustment Factor after any such merger or consolidation so as to approximate the existing method for such calculation as closely as reasonably possible. Such calculation shall take into account, among other things, the kind and amount of the securities, cash and other property that was receivable upon such merger or consolidation by a holder of REIT Shares or options, warrants or other rights relating thereto, and which a holder of Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Units could have acquired had such Partnership Units been exchanged immediately prior to such merger or consolidation. The above provisions of this Section 11.2(c) shall similarly apply to successive mergers or consolidations permitted hereunder.
(d) Notwithstanding the consummation other provisions of this Article 11 (other than Section 11.6(d)), the Partnership Interests of the General Partner may be Transferred, at any time or from time to time, and without the Consent of any Limited Partners, to any Person that is, at the time of such transaction; (iiiTransfer, an Affiliate of the General Partner or any successor thereto, including any Qualified REIT Subsidiary. Any transferee of the entire General Partner Interest pursuant to this Section 11.2(d) shall automatically become, without further action or Consent of any Limited Partners, the sole general partner of the Partnership, subject to all the rights, preferences privileges, duties and privileges obligations under this Agreement and the Act relating to a general partner. The provisions of such holders in Section 11.2(a) (other than the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction last sentence thereof), Section 11.3 and as those applicable Section 11.4 shall not apply to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Transfer permitted by this Section 11.2.B(a11.2(d); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Aviv Reit, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Aviv Reit, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except The Managing General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in connection Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof. The term "Transfer", when used in this Section 11.2 with respect to the General Partner Interest, shall be deemed to include a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.BTransfer of the General Partner Interest resulting from any merger, consolidation or other combination by the Special Limited Partner with or into another Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Special Limited Partner), the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Special Limited Partner and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of the outstanding equity interests of the Special Limited Partner, but shall exclude the transactions described in Section 11.3.B hereof.
B. Except as provided in Section 11.1.C, this Section 11.2.B and Section 11.2.C hereof, the Managing General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor Managing General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor Managing General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the Managing General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor Managing General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor Managing General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the Managing General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, Partnership in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the Managing General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor Managing General Partner in accordance with the ActSection 13.1.A hereof.
B. C. The Managing General Partner may, with the Consent of the Limited Partners, merge with another entity if immediately after such merger substantially all the assets of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the Managing General Partner, are contributed to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership Units.
D. No Additional General Partner shall not engage in Transfer any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets General Partner Interest or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) withdraw from the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent Partnership except with the consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesManaging General Partner.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Hartman Short Term Income Properties XX, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Douglas Emmett Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in his, her or its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, Partnership in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“"Termination Transaction”") unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the period commencing upon and continuing after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2)(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (BioMed Realty Trust Inc), Limited Partnership Agreement (BioMed Realty Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited such Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a majority in interest of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The Without limiting Section 16.5 of this Agreement, the General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) and, except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Common Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, that, that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder Holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Kilroy Realty, L.P.), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Kilroy Realty, L.P.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. (a) Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B10.2(b), the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall may not transfer all or any part of its Partnership Interest.
(b) Neither Section 10.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement shall be construed to prevent (and the Limited Partner does hereby expressly consent to)
(i) the transfer by the General Partner of all or a portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger Interest to one or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partnersmore Affiliates, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon Partnership Interest to the admission of extent not transferred to a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of Partner, shall be a Limited Partner's Partnership Interest in accordance with or (ii) the provisions of this Section 11.2, transfer by the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of all its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or Partnership Interest upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any its merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other Person or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassificationto another Person if, recapitalization or change in the case of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) transfer described in either clause (ai) or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection of this sentence, the rights and duties of the General Partner with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal respect to the product Partnership Interest so transferred as a General Partner's Partnership Interest (or the rights and duties of a Limited Partner with respect to the REIT Shares Amount Partnership Interest so transferred as a Limited Partner's Partnership Interest) are assumed by the transferee and the greatest amount transferee agrees to be bound by the provisions of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with this Agreement and the Termination TransactionInvestor Partnership Agreement; provided, thatthat in either such case, ifsuch transferee furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders loss of more than fifty percent (50%) limited liability of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder Limited Partner or cause the Partnership to be taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes. In the case of Common Units shall receive, or shall have a transfer of a Partnership Interest pursuant to this Section 10.2(b) to a Person proposed as a successor general partner of the right to elect to receivePartnership, the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Teppco Partners Lp), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Teppco Partners Lp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent consent of all of the Holders of Class A Common Limited PartnersPartnership Units, which may be given or withheld by each Holder of Class A Common Limited Partner Partnership Units in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Class A Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity Bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Class A Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Tanger Properties LTD Partnership /Nc/), Limited Partnership Agreement (Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except as provided in connection with Section 11.2.B or Section 11.2.C, and subject to the rights of any Holder of any Partnership Interest set forth in a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.BPartnership Unit Designation, the General Partner shall may not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, Interest without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission . It is a condition to any Transfer of a successor Partnership Interest of a General Partner otherwise permitted hereunder that: (i) coincident with such Transfer, the transferee is admitted as a General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, 12.1 hereof; (ii) the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all purposes herein, and shall be vested with of the powers and rights obligations of the transferor General Partner, Partner under this Agreement with respect to such Transferred Partnership Interest; and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of (iii) the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is acquired and the admission of such transferee as a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumesGeneral Partner.
B. Except as provided in this Section 11.2.B or in Section 11.2.C, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event neither the General Partner withdraws from nor VICI REIT shall, and the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not permit the Partnership to, engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another personPerson, any sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization reclassification of or change in all of its outstanding equity interests REIT Shares or Partnership Interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent any of the Partners and (2) either clause (ai), (ii) or (biii) below is satisfied:
(ai) in connection with such Termination Transaction Transaction, all of the Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount Adjustment Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of such Termination Transaction; provided, that, that if, in connection with the such Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder of Common Units would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) pursuant to Article 15 hereof and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(bii) all of the following conditions are met: (iw) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity Partnership immediately prior to the Termination Transaction are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (iix) the holders Limited Partners who held Common Units (other than VICI REIT) immediately prior to the consummation of Common-Equivalent Units such Termination Transaction own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iiiy) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership of such Limited Partners are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (ivz) such the rights of the such Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons Persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2.B(i) or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units interests in the Surviving Partnership for cash on terms substantially equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person Person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares; or
(iii) the terms of such Termination Transaction are otherwise approved by the Consent of the Limited Partners.
C. Subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Article 11, the General Partner may Transfer all of its Partnership Interests at any time to any Person that is, at the time of such Transfer, a wholly-owned Subsidiary of VICI REIT, including any “qualified REIT subsidiary” (within the meaning of Code Section 856(i)(2)), without the Consent of any Limited Partners, and designate such wholly-owned Subsidiary to become the General Partner under Section 12.1.
D. Except in connection with Transfers permitted in this Article 11, the General Partner may not voluntarily withdraw as a general partner of the Partnership without the Consent of the Limited Partners.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Vici Properties Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Vici Properties Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2)(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Digital Realty Trust, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Digital Realty Trust, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except as otherwise provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under this Section 11.2.B11.2, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in his, her or its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a majority in interest of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) or, except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Common-Equivalent Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of for one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, that, that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Common-Equivalent Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder Holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Common-Equivalent Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(b) C. The General Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the following conditions are metrequirements of Section 11.2.B hereof if: (i) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Partnership Units held by such General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Limited Partners own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders the Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or 11.2.B, (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, transaction or (c) if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D) and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C, the relative fair market values and the rights, preferences and privileges of Limited Partners shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Excel Trust, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Excel Trust, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B(a) The General Partner may transfer all, but not less than all, of its Partnership Interest as the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership to a single transferee if, but only if, (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent i) at least 66 2/3% of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld Outstanding Units (excluding for purposes of such determination any Common Units held by each Limited the General Partner in and its sole Affiliates and absolute discretion, the number of I-Units that equal the number of Listed Shares and only upon Voting Shares held by the General Partner and its Affiliates) and a majority of the Outstanding I-Units voting as a separate class (excluding for purposes of such determination the number of I-Units that equal the number of Listed Shares and Voting Shares held by the General Partner and its Affiliates) approve of such transfer and of the admission of a successor such transferee as General Partner, (ii) the transferee agrees to assume the rights and duties of the General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with and be bound by the provisions of this Section 11.2, Agreement and the transferee shall become a substitute General Delegation of Control Agreement and (iii) the Partnership receives an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer would not result in the loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with or of any limited partner or member of any Subsidiary or cause the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee Partnership or any Subsidiary to be bound by all the terms and provisions taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes.
(b) Neither Section 11.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement with respect shall be construed to prevent (and all Partners do hereby consent to) (i) the transfer by the General Partner of all of its Partnership Interest so acquired. It is as a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred an Affiliate or (ii) the transfer by the General Partner of all its Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to Interest as a statutory General Partner upon its merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other Person or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassificationto another Person if, recapitalization or change in the case of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) transfer described in either clause (ai) or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection of this sentence, the rights and duties of the General Partner with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal respect to the product of Partnership Interest so transferred are assumed by the REIT Shares Amount transferee and the greatest amount transferee agrees to be bound by the provisions of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transactionthis Agreement; provided, that, ifin either such case, such transferee furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with a loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or of any limited partner or member of any Subsidiary or cause the Termination Transaction, Partnership or any Subsidiary to be taxable as a purchase, tender corporation or exchange offer shall have been made otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes. In the case of a transfer pursuant to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receivethis Section 11.2(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement, Limited Partnership Agreement (Enbridge Energy Partners Lp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, (a) If the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent general partner of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in Investor Partnership transfers its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of partnership interest as a successor General Partner pursuant general partner therein to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest Person in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2the Investor Partnership Agreement, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes hereinshall contemporaneously therewith transfer its Partnership Interest as the General Partner of the Partnership to such Person, and shall be vested with the powers Limited Partner hereby expressly consents to such transfer. Except as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence and rights of the transferor General Partnerin Section 10.2(b), and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as Partner may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement not transfer all or any part of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions its Partnership Interest.
(b) Neither Section 10.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement with respect shall, be construed to prevent (and the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any Limited Partner does hereby expressly consent to)
(i) the transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that by the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of all of its obligations under this Agreement without Partnership Interest to an Affiliate or (ii) the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event transfer by the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or all its Partnership Interest upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any its merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other Person or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassificationto another Person if, recapitalization or change in the case of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) transfer described in either clause (ai) or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection of this sentence, the rights and duties of the General Partner with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal respect to the product of Partnership Interest so transferred are assumed by the REIT Shares Amount transferee and the greatest amount transferee agrees to be bound by the provisions of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with this Agreement and the Termination TransactionInvestor Partnership Agreement; provided, thatthat in either such case, ifsuch transferee furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders loss of more than fifty percent (50%) limited liability of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder Limited Partner or cause the Partnership to be taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes. In the case of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right a transfer pursuant to elect to receivethis Section 10.2(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Teppco Partners Lp), Limited Partnership Agreement (Teppco Partners Lp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B(a) The General Partner may transfer all, but not less than all, of its Partnership Interest as the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership to a single transferee if, but only if, (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent i) a majority of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld Outstanding Units (excluding any Common Units and Class B Units owned by each Limited the General Partner in and its sole Affiliates and absolute discretion, excluding the number of I-Units corresponding to any Listed Shares owned by the General Partner and only upon its Affiliates) and a majority of the Outstanding I-Units voting as a separate class (excluding the number of I-Units corresponding to any Listed Shares owned by the General Partner and its Affiliates) approve of such transfer and of the admission of a successor such transferee as General Partner pursuant Partner, (ii) the transferee agrees to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with assume and be bound by the provisions of this Section 11.2, Agreement and Operating Partnership Agreement and (iii) the transferee shall become a substitute General Partnership receives an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer would not result in the loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights or of any limited partner of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of Operating Partnership or cause the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm Partnership or the agreement of such transferee Operating Partnership to be bound by all the terms and provisions treated as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise to be taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes.
(b) Neither Section 11.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement with respect shall be construed to prevent (and all Partners do hereby consent to) (i) the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that by the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of all of its obligations under this Agreement without Partnership Interest to an Affiliate or (ii) the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event transfer by the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the its Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any Interest upon its merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other Person or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassificationto another Person if, recapitalization or change in the case of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) transfer described in either clause (ai) or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection of this sentence, the rights and duties of the General Partner with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal respect to the product of Partnership Interest so transferred are assumed by the REIT Shares Amount transferee and the greatest amount transferee agrees to be bound by the provisions of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with this Agreement and the Termination TransactionOperating Partnership Agreement; provided, thatin either such case, ifthat such transferee furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) any limited partner of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder Operating Partnership or cause the Partnership or the Operating Partnership to be treated as an association taxable as a corporation or otherwise be taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes. In the case of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right a transfer pursuant to elect to receivethis Section 11.2(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L P), Limited Partnership Agreement (Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L P)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, a majority in interest of all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Cedar Shopping Centers Inc), Limited Partnership Agreement (Cedar Income Fund LTD)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1,
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Digital Realty Trust, Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Digital Realty Trust, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. (a) The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1(c), 11.2(b) and 11.2(c) hereof.
(b) Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.2(c) below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2(b), the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. (c) The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination may merge with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with entity if immediately after such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) merger substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the surviving entity General Partner, are held directly or indirectly by contributed to the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesUnits.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Northstar Realty), Limited Partnership Agreement (Northstar Realty)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C or 11.2.B hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1.C, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise); provided that the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership or Transfer all or a part of its General Partner Interest if, other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent as a result of the Limited Partnerstransaction in which such withdrawal or Transfer occurs, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner receives or has the right to receive for each OP Unit an amount of cash, securities or other property equal in value to the amount such Limited Partner would have received had such Limited Partner exercised its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner Redemption right pursuant to Section 12.18.6 immediately prior to such transaction. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretionAgreement. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc.), Limited Partnership Agreement (Invesco Agency Securities Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the (a) The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Majority in Interest of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only only, in the case of a purported transfer of all of the General Partner’s General Partner Interest, upon the appointment and admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.1 and 13.1(b). Upon any transfer of a Partnership all of the General Partner’s General Partner Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Super Majority Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In Subject to Section 7.3(c), in the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The (b) Except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2(c), the General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, thatPROVIDED THAT, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty thirty-three and one-third percent (5033.3 %) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; oroffer.
(bc) Notwithstanding Section 11.2(b), the following conditions are metGeneral Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity if: (i) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Partnership Units held by such General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Limited Partners own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2(e) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2(e)) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders the Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2(b) or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2(e)) and the REIT Shares.
(d) In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2(b) or Section 11.2(c) hereof, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction to avoid causing the Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the occurrence of or their participation in such Termination Transaction. The sole remedy for a breach by the General Partner of this Section 11.2(d) shall be a claim for damages.
(e) In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2(b) or 11.2(c), the relative fair market values shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Parkway Properties Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, Table of Contents all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Digital Realty Trust, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1C, 11.2B and 11.2C hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1C, Section 11.2C or Section 11.2D, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2such provisions, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The C. Notwithstanding Section 11.2B, the General Partner may merge with another entity if immediately after such merger substantially all of the assets of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the General Partner, are contributed to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership Units.
D. The Parent REIT shall not engage in any mergerin, consolidation or other combination with cause or into another personpermit, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“a Termination Transaction”) unless , unless:
(1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Limited Partners is obtained (which consent may be given or withheld in the sole and absolute discretion of the Limited Partners);
(2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with any such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either Transaction, each holder of Partnership Common Units (other than the REIT Parties) will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Partnership Common Unit Unit, an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount Adjustment Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of such Termination Transaction; provided, that, provided that if, in connection with the such Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) a majority of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Partnership Common Units shall (other than the REIT Parties) will receive, or shall will have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder of Partnership Common Units would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in pursuant to Section 8.6) 8.6 and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Partnership Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummatedconsummated (the fair market value, at the time of the Termination Transaction, of the amount specified herein with respect to each Partnership Common Unit is referred to as the "Transaction Consideration"); or
(b3) all of the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held Partnership prior to the announcement of the Termination Transaction are, immediately after the Termination Transaction, owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders Surviving Partnership is classified as a partnership for U.S. Federal income tax purposes; (iii) the Limited Partners (other than the Initial Limited Partner) that held Partnership Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of Common-Equivalent Units such Termination Transaction own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iiiiv) the rights, preferences and privileges rights of such holders in Limited Partners with respect to the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the followinginclude: (ax) if the Parent REIT or its successor is a REIT with a single class of Publicly Traded common equity securities, the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership at any time for either: (1) a number of such REIT's Publicly Traded common equity securities with a fair market value, as of the consideration available date of consummation of such Termination Transaction, equal to such persons pursuant the Transaction Consideration, subject to Section 11.2.B(aantidilution adjustments comparable to those set forth in the definition of "Adjustment Factor" herein (the "Successor Shares Amount"); or (b2) cash in an amount equal to the fair market value of the Successor Shares Amount at the time of such redemption, determined in a manner consistent with the definition of "Value" herein; or (y) if the Parent REIT or its successor is not a REIT with a single class of Publicly Traded common equity securities, the right to redeem their Common Units interests in the Surviving Partnership at any time for cash on terms equivalent in an amount equal to those the Transaction Consideration; and (v) the General Partner determines, in effect good faith, that the other rights of such Limited Partners with respect to their the Surviving Partnership, in the aggregate, are not materially less favorable than those of Limited Partners holding Partnership Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Arbor Realty Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“"Termination Transaction”") unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the period commencing upon and continuing after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2)(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Maguire Properties Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except as provided in connection with Section 11.2.B or Section 11.2.C, and subject to the rights of any Holder of any Partnership Interest set forth in a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.BPartnership Unit Designation, the General Partner shall may not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, Interest without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission . It is a condition to any Transfer of a successor Partnership Interest of a General Partner otherwise permitted hereunder that: (i) coincident with such Transfer, the transferee is admitted as a General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, 12.1 hereof; (ii) the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all purposes herein, and shall be vested with of the powers and rights obligations of the transferor General Partner, Partner under this Agreement with respect to such Transferred Partnership Interest; and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of (iii) the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is acquired and the admission of such transferee as a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumesGeneral Partner.
B. Except as provided in this Section 11.2.B or in Section 11.2.C, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event neither the General Partner withdraws from nor IMC REIT shall, and the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not permit the Partnership to, engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another personPerson, any sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization reclassification of or change in all of its outstanding equity interests REIT Shares or Partnership Interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent any of the Partners and (2) either clause (ai), (ii) or (biii) below is satisfied:
(ai) in connection with such Termination Transaction Transaction, all of the Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount Adjustment Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of such Termination Transaction; provided, that, that if, in connection with the such Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder of Common Units would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) pursuant to Article 15 hereof and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(bii) all of the following conditions are met: (iw) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity Partnership immediately prior to the Termination Transaction are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (iix) the holders Limited Partners who held Common Units (other than IMC REIT) immediately prior to the consummation of Common-Equivalent Units such Termination Transaction own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iiiy) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership of such Limited Partners are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (ivz) such the rights of the such Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2.B(i) or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units interests in the Surviving Partnership for cash on terms substantially equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares; or
(iii) the terms of such Termination Transaction are otherwise approved by the Consent of the Limited Partners.
C. Subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Article 11, the General Partner may Transfer all of its Partnership Interests at any time to any Person that is, at the time of such Transfer, a wholly-owned Subsidiary of IMC REIT, including any “qualified REIT subsidiary” (within the meaning of Code Section 856(i)(2)), without the Consent of any Limited Partners, and designate such wholly-owned Subsidiary to become the General Partner under Section 12.1.
D. Except in connection with Transfers permitted in this Article 11, the General Partner may not voluntarily withdraw as a general partner of the Partnership without the Consent of the Limited Partners.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (International Market Centers, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The Managing General Partner may not Transfer any of its Managing General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof. 57
B. Except as provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1.C and Section 11.2.C hereof, the Managing General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor Managing General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor Managing General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the Managing General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor Managing General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor Managing General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the Managing General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the Managing General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor Managing General Partner in accordance with the ActSection 13.1.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. (a) Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under this Section 11.2.B11.2, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission discretion of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1such Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2(a), the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The (b) Notwithstanding Section 11.2(a), the General Partner shall not engage may, without the consent of the Limited Partners, Transfer its General Partner Interest in connection with any merger, consolidation consolidation, share exchange or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its the assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent stock of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfiedParent if:
(ai) in connection with as a result of such Termination Transaction transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common OP Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal in value to the product of the REIT Shares Amount Adjustment Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid in such transaction to a holder of one (1) REIT Share in consideration of one (1) REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transactionshare; provided, that, provided that if, in connection with the Termination Transactionsuch transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) % of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common OP Units shall receive, or shall have be given the right option to elect to receive, exchange its OP Units for the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder that a Limited Partner would have received had it (A) exercised its Redemption right pursuant to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.68.6(a) and received (B) sold, tendered or exchanged pursuant to the offer such REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units received upon exercise of the Redemption right immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummatedthe offer; or
(bii) the following conditions are met: General Partner or the Parent is the surviving entity in such transaction and either (A) the holders of REIT Shares do not receive cash, securities or other property in the transaction or (B) all holders of OP Units (other than the General Partner or any Subsidiary) receive for each OP Unit an amount of cash, securities or other property having a value (expressed as an amount per REIT Share) that is no less than the product of the Adjustment Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property (expressed as an amount per REIT Share) received in such transaction by any holder of REIT Shares.
(c) Notwithstanding Sections 11.2(a) and (b), the General Partner, the Parent Limited Partner or the Parent may merge with or into or consolidate with another entity if immediately after such merger or consolidation (i) substantially all of the assets of the successor or surviving entity (the “Survivor”), other than Partnership Units held by the General Partner or the Parent Limited Partner, are contributed, directly or indirectly owned indirectly, to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership Units with a fair market value equal to the value of the assets so contributed as determined by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (Survivor in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); good faith and (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest Survivor expressly agrees to assume all obligations of the Surviving Partnership based on General Partner hereunder. Upon such contribution and assumption, the relative fair market value Survivor shall have the right and duty to amend this Agreement as set forth in this Section 11.2(c). The Survivor shall in good faith arrive at a new method for the calculation of the net assets of Cash Amount, the Partnership REIT Shares Amount and the Adjustment Factor after any such merger or consolidation so as to approximate the existing method for such calculation as closely as reasonably possible. Such calculation shall take into account, among other net assets things, the kind and amount of the Surviving securities, cash and other property that was receivable upon such merger or consolidation by a holder of REIT Shares or options, warrants or other rights relating thereto, and which a holder of Partnership Units could have acquired had such Partnership Units been exchanged immediately prior to such merger or consolidation. Such amendment to this Agreement shall provide for adjustment to such method of calculation, which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the consummation adjustments provided for with respect to the Adjustment Factor. The Survivor also shall in good faith modify the definition of REIT Shares and make such amendments to Section 8.06 so as to approximate the existing rights and obligations set forth in Section 8.06 as closely as reasonably possible. The above provisions of this Section 11.2(c) shall similarly apply to successive mergers or consolidations permitted hereunder.
(d) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Article 11 (other than Section 11.6(d)), the Partnership Interests of the General Partner may be Transferred, at any time or from time to time, to any Person that is, at the time of such transaction; (iiiTransfer, the Parent or any successor thereto or a Qualified REIT Subsidiary. Any transferee of the entire General Partner Interest pursuant to this Section 11.2(d) shall automatically become, without further action or Consent of any Limited Partners, the sole general partner of the Partnership, subject to all the rights, preferences privileges, duties and privileges obligations under this Agreement and the Act relating to a general partner. Upon any Transfer permitted by this Section 11.2(d), the transferor General Partner shall be relieved of such holders in all its obligations under this Agreement. The provisions of Sections 11.2(a) (other than the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction last sentence thereof), 11.3 and as those applicable 11.4 shall not apply to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Transfer permitted by this Section 11.2.B(a11.2(d); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. (a) The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Section 11.2(b) hereof.
(b) Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.Bas otherwise provided herein, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest Partnership Interest without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliatesole and absolute discretion of the Limited Partners. The General Partner may, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, Transfer all, but not less than all, of its Partnership Interest to Meridian, to a Qualified REIT Subsidiary of Meridian, or in connection with a Meridian Transaction. As a condition to any Meridian Transaction in which the Partnership Units of the Limited Partners and the Assignees are not redeemed in accordance with Section 8.8, the Partnership or any successor or acquiring party, as the case may be given or withheld by each be, shall make lawful and adequate provision whereby the Limited Partner in its sole Partners and absolute discretionthe Assignees shall thereafter have the right, and only upon the admission Redemption of a successor General Partner pursuant such Persons' Partnership Units, to Section 12.1receive the REIT Shares Amount if the Cash Amount is not paid in connection with the Redemption. Upon any transfer Transfer by the General Partner of a its entire Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners or otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2I 1.2(b), and subject to the provisions of Section 12. 1, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) . Such Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretionPartners and shall cause the transferor General Partner-to cease to be a General Partner of the Partnership. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority In Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except as may be provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.Bthe Put Option Agreement, the no General Partner shall not may withdraw from the Partnership and shall not or transfer or assign all or any portion of its interest General Partner Interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.1 hereof; provided, that, as provided in Section 7.3.G, neither the Managing General Partner nor any other General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership or assign all or any part of its General Partner Interest in the Partnership without the prior consent of all other General Partners, except as may be provided in the Put Option Agreement. Upon any transfer of a Partnership General Partner Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the transferor General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership General Partner Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership General Partner Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to (i) a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of lawlaw or (ii) the Put Option Agreement, which shall remove The Xxxxx Group, L.L.C. from all obligations hereunder) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the Managing General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the Managing General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Managing General Partner in accordance with the Act. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Limited Partners nor the other General Partners shall have any right whatsoever to remove the Managing General Partner from the Partnership.
B. The Neither the Managing General Partner nor the Partnership shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“each, a "Termination Transaction”) "), unless (1) if the holders of the Shares approve the Termination Transaction, the Managing General Partner will not consummate such Termination Transaction unless (i) the Managing General Partner first conducts a vote of holders of Units (including the Managing General Partner) on the matter, (ii) the Managing General Partner votes the Units held by it in the same proportion as the holders of the Shares voted on the matter at the shareholder vote and (iii) the result of such vote of the holders of the Units (including the proportionate vote of the Units of the Managing General Partner) is that had such vote been a vote of holders of Shares, the Termination Transaction would have been approved (provided, however, that this Section 11.2.B(1) shall not be interpreted to enable or require the Managing General Partner to engage in a Termination Transaction which requires the approval of the holders of the Shares if the Managing General Partner did not receive such required approval) and (2) (x) such Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Limited Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (by) below is satisfied:
(a) except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C hereof, in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, receive or will have the right to elect to receive, receive for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT number of Common Shares Amount into which the Common Units held by such Limited Partner are exchangeable and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Common Share in consideration of one REIT Common Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, that, that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) a majority of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption Exchange Rights (as set forth in Section 8.68.6 hereof) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(b) C. A Managing General Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the following conditions are metrequirements of Section 11.2.B hereof if: (i1) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.the
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Prime Group Realty Trust)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited such Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a majority in interest of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The Without limiting Sections 16.5 and 19.7 of this Agreement, the General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) and, except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Common Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, that, that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder Holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(b) C. Without limiting Sections 16.5 and 19.7 of this Agreement, the following conditions are metGeneral Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the requirements of Section 11.2.B hereof if: (i) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Partnership Units held by such General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Common Limited Partners own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, rights preferences and privileges of such holders the Common Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Common Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Common Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2.B or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or Section 11.2.C hereof, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction to avoid causing the Common Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the occurrence of or their participation in such Termination Transaction.
E. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C, the relative fair market values shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the Common extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the 11.2.B hereof.
B. The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, Affiliate of the General Partner without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretiondiscretion of the Limited Partners; provided, and only upon however, that no such Consent shall be required in the admission event of a Transfer or constructive Transfer to a successor to all or substantially all of the assets of the General Partner pursuant or to Section 12.1a successor by operation of law or otherwise in connection with the merger or consolidation of the General Partner. Upon any transfer Transfer or constructive Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners or otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner (except that upon a Transfer to an Affiliate of the General Partner, the General Partner shall remain liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner), once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant Transfer shall, except for a Transfer to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities an Affiliate of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall Partner, relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority In Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Cornerstone Realty Income Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except as may be provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.Bthe Put Option Agreement, the no General Partner shall not may withdraw from the Partnership and shall not or transfer or assign all or any portion of its interest General Partner Interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.1 hereof; provided, that, as provided in Section 7.3.G, neither the Managing General Partner nor any other General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership or assign all or any part of its General Partner Interest in the Partnership without the prior consent of all other General Partners, except as may be provided in the Put Option Agreement. Upon any transfer of a Partnership General Partner Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the transferor General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership General Partner Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership General Partner Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to (i) a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of lawlaw or (ii) the Put Option Agreement, which shall remove The Xxxxx Group, L.L.C. from all obligations hereunder) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the Managing General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the Managing General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Managing General Partner in accordance with the Act. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Limited Partners nor the other General Partners shall have any right whatsoever to remove the Managing General Partner from the Partnership.
B. The Neither the Managing General Partner nor the Partnership shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“each, a "Termination Transaction”) "), unless (1) if the holders of the Shares approve the Termination Transaction, the Managing General Partner will not consummate such Termination Transaction unless (i) the Managing General Partner first conducts a vote of holders of Units (including the Managing General Partner) on the matter, (ii) the Managing General Partner votes the Units held by it in the same proportion as the holders of the Shares voted on the matter at the shareholder vote and (iii) the result of such vote of the holders of the Units (including the proportionate vote of the Units of the Managing General Partner) is that had such vote been a vote of holders of Shares, the Termination Transaction would have been approved (provided, however, that this Section 11.2.B(1) shall not be interpreted to enable or require the Managing General Partner to engage in a Termination Transaction which requires the approval of the holders of the Shares if the Managing General Partner did not receive such required approval) and (2) (x) such Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Limited Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (by) below is satisfied:
(a) except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C hereof, in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, receive or will have the right to elect to receive, receive for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT number of Common Shares Amount into which the Common Units held by such Limited Partner are exchangeable and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Common Share in consideration of one REIT Common Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, that, that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) a majority of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption Exchange Rights (as set forth in Section 8.68.6 hereof) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(b) C. A Managing General Partner or the following conditions are metPartnership may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the requirements of Section 11.2.B hereof if: (i1) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Units held by such Managing General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.;
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Prime Group Realty Trust)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under transaction described in Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent prior written consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation approved by the Consent of the Limited Partners in accordance with Section 11.2.B wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in their reasonable its sole and absolute discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in, or cause or permit, any direct or indirect transfer of all or any portion of the General Partner’s Partnership Interest in connection with, or any other occurrence of, (i) a merger, consolidation consolidation, conversion or other combination with or into another personextraordinary transaction involving the General Partner, sale (ii) a reclassification, recapitalization or change of all the outstanding REIT Shares (other than a change in par value, or substantially all from par value to no par value, or as a result of its assets a share split, share dividend or similar subdivision), or (iii) a Change of Control of the Company, or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1A) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a the Consent of the Limited Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(aB) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Common Share in consideration of one REIT Common Share in connection with at any time during the period from and after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated, subject to any escrow, contingent value or other deferred consideration arrangement applicable to such consideration for such REIT Common Share; provided, provided that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Common Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, receive the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right rights of Redemption pursuant to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) 8.6 and received REIT Common Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted or tendered such REIT Common Shares into such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then (subject to any escrow, contingent value or other deferred consideration arrangement that would have been applicable to such consideration for such REIT Common Shares).
C. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) to avoid causing the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the assets directly occurrence of or indirectly owned their participation in such Termination Transaction. In the event of any actual or threatened breach by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor General Partner of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each casethis Section 11.2.C, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior Limited Partners shall be entitled to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rightsinjunctive relief, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable addition to any other limited partners remedy available at law or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesequity.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Seritage Growth Properties)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“each, a "Termination Transaction”) "), unless (1i) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) and, except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, provided that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, ------------- a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(bC. The General Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the requirements of Section 11.2.B(ii) the following conditions are methereof if: (i) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Partnership Units held by such General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Limited Partners own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, rights preferences and privileges of such holders the Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2.B or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or Section 11.2.C hereof, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction to avoid causing the Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the occurrence of or their participation in such Termination Transaction.
E. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C, the relative fair market values shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the period commencing upon and continuing after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2)(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (MPG Office Trust, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“"Termination Transaction”") unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the period commencing upon and continuing after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2)(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Maguire Properties Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof. In every instance where the General Partner’s ability to merge, transfer its General Partner Interest, or withdraw from the Partnership is limited pursuant to this Section 11.2, the Parent REIT’s ability to merge or transfer its stock of the General Partner shall be similarly limited.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1.C above and Section 11.2.C below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The C. Notwithstanding Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination may merge with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with entity if immediately after such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) merger substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the surviving entity General Partner, are held directly or indirectly by contributed to the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesUnits.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Arbor Realty Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C or 11.2.B hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1.C, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise); provided that the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership or Transfer all or a part of its General Partner Interest if, other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent as a result of the Limited Partnerstransaction in which such withdrawal or transfer occurs, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner receives or has the right to receive for each OP Unit an amount of cash, securities or other property equal in value to the amount such Limited Partner would have received had such Limited Partner exercised its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner Redemption right pursuant to Section 12.18.6 immediately prior to such transaction. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretionAgreement. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (MFResidential Investments, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, Partners which may be given or withheld by each such Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1; provided, however, that, subject to Sections 11.2.B, 11.2.C, 11.2.D and 11.2.E, the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership and transfer all of its interest upon the merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets of the General Partner without the consent of any Limited Partners. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not or transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.A, the transferee General Partner shall become a substitute substituted General Partner for all purposes hereinPartner, and shall be effective simultaneously with such transfer, vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments instrument as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, assumes by operation of law or express agreement, agreement all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, Interest and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the .
B. The General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the may transfer General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect Partner- ship Interests held by it to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the ActSection 7.5.B hereof.
B. C. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, Person or any sale of all or substantially all of its assets assets, or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests REIT Shares (other than a reincorporation, a change in par value or from par value to no par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination as described in the definition of “Conversion Factor”) (“Termination Transaction”) ), unless either:
(1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by also includes a Consent merger of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) Partnership or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction sale of substantially all of the assets of the Partnership, as a result of which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, receive for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount Conversion Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the Termination Transaction; providedperiod from and after the date on which the Transaction is consummated, that, provided that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) percent of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder the holders of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, receive the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder a Limited Partner would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (the Conversion Right or the Exchange Right, as set forth in Section 8.6) the case may be, and received REIT Shares in exchange for all of its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummatedoffer; or
(b2) the following conditions Transaction provides that the Partnership shall continue as a separate entity and grants to the Limited Partners conversion and exchange rights with respect to the ownership interests in the new entity that are met: substantially equivalent to the Rights provided for in Sections 8.4 and 11.3.C. The Limited Partners shall make the election as to whether option (i1) substantially all or (2) above shall apply with respect to a Transaction. Such election shall be made by Limited Partners owning a majority-in-interest of the assets directly or indirectly total Partnership Interests owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesPartners.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer sell, assign, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any such transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law express agreement in a form suitable for filing or express agreementrecordation, as necessary, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority In Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The In addition to, and not in lieu of, the restrictions set forth elsewhere in this Agreement, including without limitation in Section 11.2.A and Section 7.3.E hereof, the General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1i) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) Limited Partners, or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, provided that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units Limited Partner shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption Exchange (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(bC. In addition to, and not in lieu of, the restrictions set forth elsewhere in this Agreement, including without limitation in Section 11.2.A and Section 7.3.E hereof, the General Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the requirements of Section 11.2.B(ii) the following conditions are methereof if: (i) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Partnership Units held by the General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Limited Partners own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership Partnerships (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders the Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2.B or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction described in Section 11.2.B or Section 11.2.C hereof, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction to avoid causing the Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the occurrence of or their participation in such Termination Transaction.
E. In connection with any transaction described in Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C, the relative fair market values shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in connection with a Termination Transaction Section 11.2.B hereof. For purposes of Article 11, “Transfer” includes, without limitation, any sale, assignment, bequest, conveyance, devise, gift (outright or in trust), Pledge, encumbrance, hypothecation, mortgage, exchange, transfer or other disposition or act of alienation, whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law of any equity interests or securities in General Partner, of any nature or character whatsoever (including, but not limited to, rights of any nature or character, to purchase and/or convert into equity interests or securities of General Partner). For purposes of Section 11.2.B (including the exception permitted under by clause (iv) of Section 11.2.B), “Transfer” also shall include a change in the equity ownership of New Plan, through a restructuring, recapitalization, reclassification or otherwise, that results in the common stock of New Plan no longer being publicly traded on any national securities exchange or The Nasdaq Stock Market’s National Market System (a “Going Private Transaction”).
B. The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest General Partner Interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited a Majority of Remaining Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its their sole and absolute discretion; provided, and only upon that the admission General Partner may transfer its General Partner Interest without the Consent of a successor Majority of Remaining Partners (i) to an Affiliate of the General Partner so long as arrangements are made so that the REIT Shares to be issued pursuant to Section 12.18.6B continue to be shares of New Plan’s common stock, par value $.01 per share, and that such common stock continues to be listed on any national securities exchange or The Nasdaq Stock Market’s National Market System, (ii) in connection with a sale of all or substantially all of New Plan’s assets, (iii) in connection with a merger, consolidation or other business combination involving New Plan, or (iv) in connection with any Going Private Transaction, but only if, in the case of a sale of all or substantially all of New Plan’s assets, a merger, consolidation or other business combination involving New Plan, or a Going Private Transaction involving New Plan (a “Termination Transaction”), in connection therewith all Limited Partners will have the right to elect to receive, for each Partnership Unit, an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the Adjustment Factor (or Specific Adjustment Factor, as applicable) multiplied by the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of REIT Shares in consideration of one such REIT Share in connection with such Termination Transaction (the “Transaction Consideration”) at any time during the period from and after the date on which the Termination Transaction is consummated; provided that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each holder of Partnership Units shall have the right to elect to receive without any right of Consent set forth above in this subsection B, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised the Redemption right set forth in Section 8.6.A and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer. Each Limited Partner who does not elect to receive the Transaction Consideration as described above shall remain as a Limited Partner in the Partnership. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of such Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority of the remaining Remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (New Plan Excel Realty Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall may not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not or transfer or assign all or any portion of its interest General Partner Interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.1 hereof. Upon any transfer of a Partnership General Partner Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the transferor General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership General Partner Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership General Partner Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Limited Partners shall not have any right whatsoever to remove the General Partner from the Partnership.
B. The Neither the General Partner nor the Partnership shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (each, a “Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1) if the holders of the Shares approve the Termination Transaction, the General Partner will not consummate such Termination Transaction unless (i) the General Partner first conducts a vote of Holders of Units (including the General Partner) on the matter, (ii) the General Partner votes the Units held by it in the same proportion as the holders of the Shares voted on the matter at the shareholder vote and (iii) the result of such vote of the Holders of the Units (including the proportionate vote of the Units of the General Partner) is that had such vote been a vote of holders of Shares, the Termination Transaction would have been approved (provided, however, that this Section 11.2.B(1) shall not be interpreted to enable or require the General Partner to engage in a Termination Transaction which requires the approval of the holders of the Shares if the General Partner did not receive such required approval) and (2) (x) such Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Limited Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (by) below is satisfied:
(a) except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C hereof, in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, receive or will have the right to elect to receive, receive for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT number of Common Shares Amount into which the Common Units held by such Limited Partner are exchangeable and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Common Share in consideration of one REIT Common Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with .
C. The General Partner or the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receivePartnership may merge, or shall have otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount requirements of cash, securities, Section 11.2.B hereof if: (1) immediately after such merger or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchasecombination, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Units held by the General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii2) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Limited Partners own a percentage interest Partnership Interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D hereof) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D hereof) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii3) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders the Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those generally applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving PartnershipPartnership holding a comparable class of interest; and (iv4) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2.B hereof or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.D hereof) and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C hereof, the relative fair market values shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Prime Group Realty Trust)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B(a) The General Partner may transfer all, but not less than all, of its Partnership Interest as the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership to a single transferee if, but only if, (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent i) at least 66 2/3% of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld Outstanding Units (excluding for purposes of such determination any Common Units held by each Limited the General Partner in and its sole Affiliates and absolute discretion, the number of I-Units that equal the number of Listed Shares and only upon Voting Shares held by the General Partner and its Affiliates) and a majority of the Outstanding I-Units voting as a separate class (excluding for purposes of such determination the number of I-Units that equal the number of Listed Shares and Voting Shares held by the General Partner and its Affiliates) approve of such transfer and of the admission of a successor such transferee as General Partner, (ii) the transferee agrees to assume the rights and duties of the General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with and be bound by the provisions of this Section 11.2, Agreement and the transferee shall become a substitute General Delegation of Control Agreement and (iii) the Partnership receives an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer would not result in the loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with or of any limited partner or member of any Subsidiary or cause the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee Partnership or any Subsidiary to be bound by all the terms and provisions taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes.
(b) Neither Section 11.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement with respect shall be construed to prevent (and all Partners do hereby consent to) (i) the transfer by the General Partner of all of its Partnership Interest so acquired. It is as a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred an Affiliate or (ii) the transfer by the General Partner of all its Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to Interest as a statutory General Partner upon its merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other Person or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassificationto another Person if, recapitalization or change in the case of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) transfer described in either clause (ai) or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection of this sentence, the rights and duties of the General Partner with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal respect to the product of Partnership Interest so transferred are assumed by the REIT Shares Amount transferee and the greatest amount transferee agrees to be bound by the provisions of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transactionthis Agreement; providedPROVIDED, that, ifin either such case, such transferee furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with a loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or of any limited partner or member of any Subsidiary or cause the Termination Transaction, Partnership or any Subsidiary to be taxable as a purchase, tender corporation or exchange offer shall have been made otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes. In the case of a transfer pursuant to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receivethis Section 11.2(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Enbridge Energy Partners Lp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.2.B or a transfer or assignment to an Affiliate of the General Partner, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer or assign all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership Interest (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation liquidation, or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission acceptance of a successor Person as a substitute General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission acceptance and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation consolidation, or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Limited Partners and or (2) either clause (a1) or (b2) below is satisfied:
(1) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Ordinary Units or LTIP Units or both own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non- managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(2); or (b) the right to redeem their Ordinary Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Ordinary Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
(2) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners (other than the General Partner or any of its Affiliates who are not natural persons) either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Ordinary Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Ordinary Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Ordinary Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender tender, or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Tarantula Ventures LLC)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1.C above and Section 11.2.C below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission discretion of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1such Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The C. Notwithstanding Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not engage may, without the consent of the Limited Partners, Transfer its Interest in connection with any merger, consolidation merger or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its the assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent stock of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesParent.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Vintage Wine Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, Partners which may be given or withheld by each such Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1; provided, however, that, subject to Sections 11.2.B, 11.2.C, 11.2.D and 11.2.E, the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership and transfer all of its interest upon the merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets of the General Partner without the consent of any Limited Partners. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its 62 obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The Neither the General Partner shall not nor the Partnership may engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or effect any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests interests, and the General Partner may not sell all or substantially all of its assets (“each a "Termination Transaction”") unless (1) in connection with the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent all holders of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners Partnership Units either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Share Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a the holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if. If, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall will receive, or shall will have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right rights to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such offer. The PLPs shall have the benefit of the foregoing provisions with respect to all of their Performance Units, notwithstanding the limitation set forth in Section 8.6.A on a PLPs ability to exercise its rights to a Redemption.
C. A Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) may also occur if the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership Partnership, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving PartnershipPartnership (except, as to Performance Units, for such differences with Partnership Units regarding liquidation, Redemption and exchange as are set forth herein); and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners Partners, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a)11.2.B; or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, 63 such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C the determination of relative fair market values and rights, preferences and privileges of the Limited Partners shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner's Board of Directors as of the time of the Termination Transaction and, to the extent applicable, the values shall be no less favorable to the holders of Partnership Units than the relative values reflected in the terms of the Termination Transaction.
E. In the event of a Termination Transaction, the arrangements with respect to Performance Units and Performance Shares will be equitably adjusted to reflect the terms of the transaction, including, to the extent that the REIT Shares are exchanged for consideration other than publicly traded common equity, the transfer or release of remaining Performance Shares pursuant to the Escrow Agreements, and resulting issuance of any Performance Units as set forth in Section 4.3.F.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under transaction described in Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent prior written consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation approved by the Consent of the Limited Partners in accordance with Section 11.2.B wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in their reasonable its sole and absolute discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in, or cause or permit, any direct or indirect transfer of all or any portion of the General Partner’s Partnership Interest in connection with, or any other occurrence of, (i) a merger, consolidation consolidation, conversion or other combination with or into another personextraordinary transaction involving the General Partner, sale (ii) a reclassification, recapitalization or change of all the outstanding REIT Shares (other than a change in par value, or substantially all from par value to no par value, or as a result of its assets a share split, share dividend or similar subdivision), or (iii) a Change of Control of the Company, or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1A) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a the Consent of the Limited Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(aB) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit other than a Non-Economic Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Economic Share in consideration of one REIT Economic Share in connection with at any time during the period from and after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated, subject to any escrow, contingent value or other deferred consideration arrangement applicable to such consideration for such REIT Economic Share; provided, provided that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Sharesvoting power of the Company, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, receive the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right rights of Redemption pursuant to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) 8.6 and received REIT Class A Common Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding Non-Economic Units) immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted or tendered such REIT Class A Common Shares into such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then (subject to any escrow, contingent value or other deferred consideration arrangement that would have been applicable to such consideration for such REIT Class A Common Shares).
C. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) to avoid causing the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the assets directly occurrence of or indirectly owned their participation in such Termination Transaction. In the event of any actual or threatened breach by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor General Partner of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each casethis Section 11.2.C, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior Limited Partners shall be entitled to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rightsinjunctive relief, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable addition to any other limited partners remedy available at law or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesequity.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Seritage Growth Properties)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent consent of all of the Holders of Class A Common Limited PartnersPartnership Units, which may be given or withheld by each Holder of Class A Common Limited Partner Partnership Units in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Class A Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity Bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Class A Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Tanger Properties LTD Partnership /Nc/)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1C, 11.2B and 11.2C hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1C, Section 11.2C or Section 11.2D, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2such provisions, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The C. Notwithstanding Section 11.2B, the General Partner may merge with another entity if immediately after such merger substantially all of the assets of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the General Partner, are contributed to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership Units.
D. The Parent REIT shall not engage in any mergerin, consolidation or other combination with cause or into another personpermit, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“a Termination Transaction”) unless , unless:
(1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Limited Partners is obtained (which consent may be given or withheld in the sole and absolute discretion of the Limited Partners);
(2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with any such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either Transaction, each holder of Partnership Common Units (other than the REIT Parties) will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Partnership Common Unit Unit, an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount Adjustment Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of such Termination Transaction; provided, that, provided that if, in connection with the such Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) a majority of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Partnership Common Units shall (other than the REIT Parties) will receive, or shall will have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder of Partnership Common Units would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in pursuant to Section 8.6) 8.6 and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Partnership Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummatedconsummated (the fair market value, at the time of the Termination Transaction, of the amount specified herein with respect to each Partnership Common Unit is referred to as the “Transaction Consideration”); or
(b3) all of the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held Partnership prior to the announcement of the Termination Transaction are, immediately after the Termination Transaction, owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders Surviving Partnership is classified as a partnership for U.S. Federal income tax purposes; (iii) the Limited Partners (other than the Initial Limited Partner) that held Partnership Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of Common-Equivalent Units such Termination Transaction own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iiiiv) the rights, preferences and privileges rights of such holders in Limited Partners with respect to the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the followinginclude: (ax) if the Parent REIT or its successor is a REIT with a single class of Publicly Traded common equity securities, the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership at any time for either: (1) a number of such REIT’s Publicly Traded common equity securities with a fair market value, as of the consideration available date of consummation of such Termination Transaction, equal to such persons pursuant the Transaction Consideration, subject to Section 11.2.B(aantidilution adjustments comparable to those set forth in the definition of “Adjustment Factor” herein (the “Successor Shares Amount”); or (b2) cash in an amount equal to the fair market value of the Successor Shares Amount at the time of such redemption, determined in a manner consistent with the definition of “Value” herein; or (y) if the Parent REIT or its successor is not a REIT with a single class of Publicly Traded common equity securities, the right to redeem their Common Units interests in the Surviving Partnership at any time for cash on terms equivalent in an amount equal to those the Transaction Consideration; and (v) the General Partner determines, in effect good faith, that the other rights of such Limited Partners with respect to their the Surviving Partnership, in the aggregate, are not materially less favorable than those of Limited Partners holding Partnership Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Arbor Realty Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, 50 all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“"Termination Transaction”") unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the period commencing upon and continuing after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2)(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Maguire Properties Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B(a) The General Partner may transfer all, but not less than all, of its Partnership Interest as the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership to a single transferee if, but only if, (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent i) at least 66⅔% of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld Outstanding Units (excluding for purposes of such determination any Common Units held by each Limited the General Partner in and its sole Affiliates and absolute discretion, the number of I-Units that equal the number of Listed Shares and only upon Voting Shares held by the General Partner and its Affiliates) and a majority of the Outstanding I-Units voting as a separate class (excluding for purposes of such determination the number of I-Units that equal the number of Listed Shares and Voting Shares held by the General Partner and its Affiliates) approve of such transfer and of the admission of a successor such transferee as General Partner, (ii) the transferee agrees to assume the rights and duties of the General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with and be bound by the provisions of this Section 11.2Agreement and the Delegation of Control Agreement, (iii) the Partnership receives an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer would not result in the loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or of any limited partner or member of any Subsidiary or cause the Partnership or any Subsidiary to be taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes and (iv) the Partnership receives a duly executed irrevocable waiver from the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with substantially similar to the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions Incentive Distribution Waiver .
(b) Neither Section 11.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement with respect shall be construed to prevent (and all Partners do hereby consent to) (i) the transfer by the General Partner of all of its Partnership Interest so acquired. It is as a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred an Affiliate or (ii) the transfer by the General Partner of all its Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to Interest as a statutory General Partner upon its merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other Person or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassificationto another Person if, recapitalization or change in the case of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) transfer described in either clause (ai) or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection of this sentence, the rights and duties of the General Partner with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal respect to the product of Partnership Interest so transferred are assumed by the REIT Shares Amount transferee and the greatest amount transferee agrees to be bound by the provisions of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transactionthis Agreement; provided, that, ifin either such case, such transferee furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with a loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or of any limited partner or member of any Subsidiary or cause the Termination Transaction, Partnership or any Subsidiary to be taxable as a purchase, tender corporation or exchange offer shall have been made otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes. In the case of a transfer pursuant to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receivethis Section 11.2(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Enbridge Energy Partners Lp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B(a) The General Partner may transfer all, but not less than all, of its Partnership Interest as the General Partner shall not withdraw from to a single transferee if, but only if, (i) the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion holders of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent at least 66 2/3% of the Percentage Interests of the Common Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole Partnership Interests approve of such transfer and absolute discretion, and only upon of the admission of a successor such transferee as General Partner pursuant Partner, (ii) the transferee agrees to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with assume and be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and (iii) the Partnership receives an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer would not result in a loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or result in the Partnership being treated as a corporation or as an association taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes.
(b) Neither Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions 11.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement with respect shall be construed to prevent (and all Partners do hereby consent to) the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that by the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the its Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any Interest upon its merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other entity or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests to another entity (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent provided that such entity assumes all of the Partners rights and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receiveduties of the General Partner), or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities transferee or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transactionsuccessor entity; provided, provided that, ifsuch entity furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with a loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or result in the Termination Transaction, Partnership being treated as a purchase, tender corporation or exchange offer shall have been made as an association taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. In the case of a transfer pursuant to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receivethis Section 11.2(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Plum Creek Timber Co Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1.C above and Section 11.2.C below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission discretion of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1such Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The C. Notwithstanding Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not engage may, without the consent of the Limited Partners, Transfer its Partnership Interest in connection with any merger, consolidation merger or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its the assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent shares of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesParent.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw as the General Partner from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest General Partner Interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation disposition or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretiondiscretion of the Limited Partners; provided, however, that the General Partner may Transfer its General Partner Interest in connection with a merger or consolidation of CRT with or into any other entity or a sale or exchange of all or substantially all of its assets or all or substantially all of the assets of CRT; provided, further, that the Consent of the Limited Partners shall not be required for any of the following: (a) at any time and from time to time the General Partner, directly or indirectly, may transfer its General Partner Interests to CRT or any Subsidiary of CRT , (b) at any time and from time to time the shareholders of CRT may Transfer shares in (or other securities issued by) CRT and CRT may issue additional shares or securities (of any type or class) and repurchase its shares or other securities, and only upon (c) CRT may Transfer any direct or indirect interest in the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Partner. Upon any transfer Transfer of a Partnership General Partner Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners or otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such the admission of the transferee to the Partnership and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under this Section 11.2.B11.2, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission discretion of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1such Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of a Majority in Interest of the Outside Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The Notwithstanding Section 11.2.A, the General Partner shall not engage may, without the consent of the Limited Partners, Transfer its Interest in connection with any merger, consolidation merger or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its the assets or stock of the Parent.
C. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Article XI (other than Section 11.6.D hereof), the Partnership Interests of the General Partner may be Transferred, at any reclassificationtime or from time to time, recapitalization to any Person that is, at the time of such Transfer, the Parent or change any successor thereto or a Qualified REIT Subsidiary. Any transferee of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a entire General Partner Interest pursuant to this Section 11.2.C shall automatically become, without further action or Consent of any Limited Partners, the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product sole general partner of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cashPartnership, securities or other property paid subject to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences privileges, duties and privileges obligations under this Agreement and the Act relating to a general partner. Upon any Transfer permitted by this Section 11.2.C, the transferor Partner shall be relieved of such holders in all its obligations under this Agreement. The provisions of Section 11.2.A (other than the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction last sentence thereof), 11.3 and as those applicable 11.4 hereof shall not apply to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Transfer permitted by this Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.11.2.C.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Cogdell Spencer Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. (a) The General Partner may not Transfer its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1(c), 11.2(b) and 11.2(c) hereof.
(b) Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.1(c) and 11.2(c) below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2(b), the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner (if the General Partner Interest shall have been Transferred) for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. (c) The General Partner shall not may merge with another entity (or form LLCs or other entities to engage in mergers) if immediately after such merger substantially all of the assets of the surviving entity, or all of the interests in such entity, are contributed to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership Units as soon as is practicable thereafter.
(d) If the General Partner shall be a party to any transaction (including, without limitation, a merger, consolidation consolidation, statutory exchange, self tender offer for all or other combination with or into another personsubstantially all Shares, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and Shares (2) either clause each of the foregoing being referred to herein as a “Fundamental Change”), in each case as a result of which Shares shall be converted into the right to receive stock, partnership units, securities or other property (a) including cash or any combination thereof), each Partnership Common Unit that is not converted into the right to receive stock, partnership units, securities or other property (b) below is satisfied:
(aincluding cash or any combination thereof) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have Fundamental Change shall thereafter be convertible into the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an kind and amount of cashshares of stock, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cashpartnership units, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender (including cash or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%any combination thereof) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to receivable upon the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges Fundamental Change by a holder of such holders in the Surviving that number of Shares into which one Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect Common Unit was convertible immediately prior to such Fundamental Change, assuming such holder of Shares (i) is not a Person with which the consummation General Partner consolidated or into which the General Partner merged or which merged into the General Partner or to which such sale or transfer was made (a “Constituent Person”) or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person and (ii) failed to exercise his or her rights of the election, if any, as to the kind and amount of stock, partnership units, securities or other property (including cash or any combination thereof) receivable upon such Fundamental Change (provided that if the stock, partnership units, securities or other property (including cash or any combination thereof) receivable upon such Fundamental Change is not the same for each Share held immediately prior to such transaction by other than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (“Non-Electing Shares”), then for purposes of this Section 11.2(d) the kind and amount of stock, partnership units, securities or other property (including cash or any combination thereof) receivable upon such Fundamental Change by each Non-Electing Share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the Non-Electing Shares. The General Partner shall not be a party to any Fundamental Change unless the terms of such transaction and as those applicable Fundamental Change are consistent with the provisions of this Section 11.2(d). The provisions of this Section 11.2(d) shall similarly apply to successive Fundamental Changes.
(e) In the event that the General Partner shall take any other limited partners or non-managing members action affecting the Shares that, in the opinion of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such disinterested directors of the General Partner, would materially adversely affect the redemption rights of the Limited Partners include at least one Partners, the General Partner shall, without the Consent of the following: (a) Limited Partners, make any amendment to the right definitions of “Adjustment Factor,” “Shares Amount” and/or “Cash Amount” that a majority of the disinterested directors of the General Partner determine in their good faith discretion is equitable under the circumstances as a result of such event in order to redeem their interests in achieve the Surviving intent of the Partners that one Partnership Common Unit be redeemable for the consideration available to such persons Value of one Share, without dilution, pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares8.6.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Meruelo Maddux Properties, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest as General Partner in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Campus Crest Communities, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under transaction described in Section 11.2.B11.2B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent prior written consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor Successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. 12.2B. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation approved by the Consent of the Limited Partners in accordance with Section 11.2B wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in their reasonable its sole and absolute discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in, or cause or permit, any direct or indirect transfer of all or any portion of the General Partner’s Partnership Interest in connection with, or any other occurrence of, (i) a merger, consolidation consolidation, conversion or other combination with or into another personextraordinary transaction involving the General Partner, sale (ii) a reclassification, recapitalization or change of all the outstanding REIT Shares (other than a change in par value, or substantially all from par value to no par value, or as a result of its assets a share split, share dividend or similar subdivision), or (iii) a Change of Control of the Company, or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) ), unless (1A) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a the Consent of the Limited Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(aB) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit other than a Non-Economic Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Economic Share in consideration of one REIT Economic Share in connection with at any time during the period from and after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated, subject to any escrow, contingent value or other deferred consideration arrangement applicable to such consideration for such REIT Economic Share; provided, provided that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Sharesvoting power of the Company, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, receive the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right rights of Redemption pursuant to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) 8.6 and received REIT Class A Common Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding Non-Economic Units) immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted or tendered such REIT Class A Common Shares into such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then (subject to any escrow, contingent value or other deferred consideration arrangement that would have been applicable to such consideration for such REIT Class A Common Shares).
C. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2B, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) to avoid causing the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the assets directly occurrence of or indirectly owned their participation in such Termination Transaction. In the event of any actual or threatened breach by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor General Partner of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each casethis Section 11.2C, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior Limited Partners shall be entitled to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rightsinjunctive relief, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable addition to any other limited partners remedy available at law or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesequity.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Seritage Growth Properties)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer sell, assign, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any such transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law express agreement in a form suitable for filing or express agreementrecordation, as necessary, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority In Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The In addition to, and not in lieu of, the restrictions set forth elsewhere in this Agreement, including without limitation in Section 11.2.A and Section 7.3E hereof, the General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“each, a "Termination Transaction”) "), unless (1i) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners Partners, and (2ii) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, provided that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, -------- a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units Limited Partner shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(bC. In addition to, and not in lieu of, the restrictions set forth elsewhere in this Agreement, including without limitation in Section 11.2.A and Section 7.3.E hereof, the General Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the requirements of Section 11.2.B(ii) the following conditions are methereof if: (i) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Partnership Units hold, by such General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Limited Partners own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership Partnerships (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders the Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2.B or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction described in Section 11.2.B or Section 11.2.C hereof, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction to avoid causing the Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the occurrence of or their participation in such Termination Transaction.
E. In connection with any transaction described in Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C, the relative fair market values shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Center Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.2.B or a transfer or assignment to an Affiliate of the General Partner, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer or assign all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership Interest (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation liquidation, or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission acceptance of a successor Person as a substitute General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission acceptance and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation consolidation, or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Limited Partners and or (2) either clause (a1) or (b2) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b1) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Ordinary Units or LTIP Units or both own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a11.2.B(2); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Ordinary Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Ordinary Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
(2) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners (other than the General Partner or any of its Affiliates who are not natural persons) either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Ordinary Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Ordinary Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Ordinary Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender, or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Dupont Fabros Technology, Inc.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-non- managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Digital Realty Trust, L.P.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (American Campus Communities Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.2.C below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the 49 51 transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. C. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination may merge with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests entity if (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(ai) in connection with such Termination Transaction all therewith the Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other receive property with a value equal in value to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder Partners would have received had it the exercised its right to the Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units Rights immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender merger or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted (ii) immediately after such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) merger substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the surviving entity General Partner, are held directly or indirectly by contributed to the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesUnits.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Fortress Investment Corp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The . Notwithstanding the foregoing, the General Partner shall not be entitled to engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another personPerson, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) interests, all as it shall determine in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharessole discretion.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Hanover Capital Holdings Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except (a) The General Partner may not transfer any of its Partnership Interests except in connection with (i) a Termination Transaction transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise11.02(b), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of (ii) any merger (including a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any triangular merger), consolidation or other combination with or into another personPerson following the consummation of which the equity holders of the surviving entity are substantially identical to the members of the General Partner, (iii) a transfer to any Person that is the Corporation or a successor thereto, (iv) a transfer to any Subsidiary of the Corporation or (v) as otherwise expressly permitted under this Agreement, nor shall the General Partner withdraw as General Partner except in connection with a transaction permitted under Section 11.02(b) or any merger, consolidation, or other combination permitted under clause (ii) of this Section 11.02(a). Any transferee of the entire General Partner Interest pursuant to this Section 11.02(a) shall automatically become, without further action or consent of any Limited Partners, the sole general partner of the Partnership, subject to all the rights, privileges, duties and obligations under this Agreement and the Securities Act relating to a general partner. Upon any Transfer permitted by this Section 11.02(a), the transferor Partner shall be relieved of all its obligations under this Agreement. The provisions of Section 11.03 and Section 11.04 hereof shall not apply to any Transfer permitted by this Section 11.02(a).
(b) Notwithstanding Section 11.02(a) above, the General Partner may, without the consent of the Limited Partners, transfer any or all of its Partnership Interest or interests in itself in connection with any merger or sale of all or substantially all of its the assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent shares of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) Corporation or (b) below is satisfied:the General Partner, as the case may be.
(ac) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit The General Partner shall not enter into an amount of cash, securities, agreement or other property equal arrangement providing for or facilitating the creation of a General Partner other than the General Partner, unless the successor General Partner executes and delivers a counterpart to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share this Agreement in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right General Partner agrees to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially be fully bound by all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity terms and conditions contained herein that are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesa General Partner.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Retail Opportunity Investments Partnership, LP)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited such Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a majority in interest of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“each, a "Termination Transaction”) "), unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) and, except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Common Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the terms of the Termination Transaction; provided, provided that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, ------------- a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or.
(b) C. The General Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity without satisfying the following conditions are metrequirements of Section 11.2.B hereof if: (i) immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity entity, other than Partnership Units held by such General Partner, are held owned directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units Common Limited Partners own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, rights preferences and privileges of such holders the Common Limited Partners in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Common Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem exchange their interests in the Surviving Partnership for at least one of: (a) the consideration available to such persons Common Limited Partners pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); 11.2.B or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities (as determined pursuant to Section 11.2.E) and the REIT Shares.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or Section 11.2.C hereof, the General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such Termination Transaction to avoid causing the Common Limited Partners to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the occurrence of or their participation in such Termination Transaction.
E. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or 11.2.C, the relative fair market values shall be reasonably determined by the General Partner as of the time of such transaction and, to the Common extent applicable, shall be no less favorable to the Limited Partners than the relative values reflected in the terms of such transaction.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only only, in the case of a purported transfer of all of the General Partner's General Partner Interest, upon the appointment and admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. 12.1 and 13.1.
B. Upon any transfer of a Partnership all of the General Partner's General Partner Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Super Majority Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In Subject to Section 7.3.C, in the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Grove Real Estate Asset Trust)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon except that the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant may transfer all of its interests to Section 12.1an Affiliate of the General Partner without any consent required from the Limited Partners. Upon any transfer of a the Partnership Interest of the General Partner in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without accruing subsequent to the Consent date of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretionsuch transfer. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1or
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all a majority in interest of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Kilroy Realty, L.P.)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not or transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.A, the transferee General Partner shall become a substitute substituted General Partner for all purposes hereinPartner, and shall be effective simultaneously with such transfer, vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments instrument as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, assumes by operation of law or express agreement, agreement all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, Interest and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the .
B. The General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the may transfer General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect Partner- ship Interests held by it to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the ActSection 7.5.B hereof.
B. C. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, Person or any sale of all or substantially all of its assets assets, or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests REIT Shares (“Termination other than a reincorporation, a change in par value or from par value to no par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination as described in the definition of "Conversion Factor") ("Transaction”) "), unless either:
(1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by also includes a Consent merger of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) Partnership or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction sale of substantially all of the assets of the Partnership, as a result of which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, receive for each Common Part- nership Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount Conver- sion Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities secu- rities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the Termination Transaction; providedperiod from and after the date on which the Transaction is consummated, that, provided that if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) percent of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder the holders of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, receive the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder a Limited Partner would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (the Conversion Right or the Exchange Right, as set forth in Section 8.6) the case may be, and received re- ceived REIT Shares in exchange for all of its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration expira- tion of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummatedoffer; or
(b2) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by Transaction provides that the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of shall continue as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership separate entity and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior grants to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of conversion and exchange rights with respect to the following: (a) the right to redeem their ownership interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms new entity that are substantially equivalent to those the Rights provided for in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities Sections 8.4 and the REIT Shares11.3.
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Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. (a) Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under this Section 11.2.B11.2(a), the General Partner shall may transfer all, but not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion less than all, of its interest in Partnership Interest as the Partnership general partner to a single transferee if, but only if, (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, without the Consent i) at least a majority of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld Outstanding Voting Units (excluding for this purpose Units held by each Limited the General Partner in and its sole Affiliates) approve of such transfer and absolute discretion, and only upon of the admission of a successor such transferee as general partner, (ii) the transferee agrees to assume the rights and duties of the General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with and be bound by the provisions of this Section 11.2Agreement and the Operating Company Agreements, (iii) the transferee certifies that it is an Eligible Citizen and (iv) the Partnership receives an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer would not result in the loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or of the Partnership as a member of the Operating Companies or cause the Partnership or the Operating Companies to be taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purposes. The foregoing notwithstanding, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary is expressly permitted to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the pledge its Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition as General Partner to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of secure the obligations of the transferor Partnership under the Revolving Credit Facility, as the same may be amended, supplemented, replaced, refinanced or restated from time to time, or any successor or subsequent loan agreement.
(b) Neither Section 11.2(a) nor any other provision of this Agreement shall be construed to prevent (and all Partners do hereby consent to) (i) the transfer by the General Partner under this Agreement with respect of all of its Partnership Interest as a general partner to such transferred an Affiliate or (ii) the transfer by the General Partner of all its Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to Interest as a statutory general partner upon its merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with into any other Person or into another person, sale the transfer by it of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassificationto another Person if, recapitalization or change in the case of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) transfer described in either clause (ai) or (bii) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection of this sentence, the rights and duties of the General Partner with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal respect to the product of 73 Partnership Interest so transferred are assumed by the REIT Shares Amount transferee and the greatest amount transferee agrees to be bound by the provisions of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with this Agreement and the Termination TransactionOperating Companies Agreement; provided, thatthat in either such case, ifsuch transferee certifies that it is an Eligible Citizen, and furnishes to the Partnership an Opinion of Counsel that such merger, consolidation, combination, transfer or assumption will not result in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender loss of limited liability of any Limited Partner or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder Partnership as a member of Common Units shall receive, the Operating Companies or shall have cause the right Partnership or the Operating Companies to elect be taxable as a corporation or otherwise taxed as an entity for federal income tax purpose. In the case of a transfer pursuant to receivethis Section 11.2(b), the greatest amount of cash, securities, transferee or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption successor (as set forth in Section 8.6the case may be) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units shall be admitted to the Partnership as the General Partner immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets transfer of the Partnership Interest, and the other net assets business of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesshall continue without dissolution.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Gulfterra Energy Partners L P)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent consent of all of the Holders of Class A Common Limited PartnersPartnership Units, which may be given or withheld by each Holder of Class A Common Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Partnership NY\5888591.8
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Class A Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity Bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Class A Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Tanger Properties LTD Partnership /Nc/)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the Sections 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof.
B. The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a "majority in interest" (as such phrase is used in Section 17-801(3) of the Act) of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Excel Realty Trust Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, Partners which may be given or withheld by each such Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1; provided, however, that, subject to Sections 11.2.B, 11.2.C, 11.2.D and 11.2.E, the General Partner may withdraw from the Partnership and transfer all of its interest upon the merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets of the General Partner without the consent of any Limited Partners. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its 58 66 obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The Neither the General Partner shall not nor the Partnership may engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or effect any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests interests, and the General Partner may not sell all or substantially all of its assets (“each a "Termination Transaction”") unless (1) in connection with the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent all holders of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners Partnership Units either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, securities or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Share Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a the holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with pursuant to the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if. If, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall will receive, or shall will have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, securities or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right rights to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such offer. The PLPs shall have the benefit of the foregoing provisions with respect to all of their Performance Units, notwithstanding the limitation set forth in Section 8.6.A on a PLPs ability to exercise its rights to a Redemption.
C. A Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) may also occur if the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “"Surviving Partnership”"); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Partnership Units, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership Partnership, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving PartnershipPartnership (except, as to Performance Units, for such differences with Partnership Units regarding liquidation, Redemption and exchange as are set forth herein); and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners Partners, including the holders of Performance Units issued or to be issued, include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a)11.2.B; or (b) the right to redeem their Common Partnership Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.,
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Amb Property Corp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under transaction described in Section 11.2.B11.2.B or Section 11.2.C, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent consent of all of the Limited Partners, which may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.112.
1. Upon any transfer of a Partnership Interest in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.2, the transferee shall become a substitute Substitute General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Partnership Interestinterest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity of the General Partner, all of the remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute Substitute General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The Except as otherwise provided in Section 11.2.C, the General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“"Termination Transaction”) "), unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction which all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with at any time during the period from and after the date on which the Termination TransactionTransaction is consummated; provided, thatPROVIDED THAT, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder holder of Common Partnership Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Partnership Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then offer; and, PROVIDED FURTHER THAT, unless a Consent of the Limited Partners has been obtained, no more than forty-nine percent (49%) of the equity securities of the acquired Person in such Termination Transaction shall have been be owned, after consummation of such Termination Transaction, by the General Partner or Persons who are Affiliates of the Partnership or the General Partner immediately prior to the date on which the Termination Transaction is consummated; or.
(b) C. Notwithstanding Section 11.2.B, the following conditions are met: (i) General Partner may merge, or otherwise combine its assets, with another entity if, immediately after such merger or other combination, substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than Partnership Units held by such General Partner, are contributed to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership Units with a fair market value, as reasonably determined by the surviving entity are held directly General Partner, equal to the Agreed Value of the assets so contributed.
D. In connection with any transaction permitted by Section 11.2.B or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each caseSection 11.2.C hereof, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior General Partner shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to the consummation of structure such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior Termination Transaction to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of avoid causing the Limited Partners include at least one to recognize gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the following: (a) occurrence of or their participation in such Termination Transaction. The sole remedy for a breach by the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership General Partner of this section 11.2.D. shall be a claim for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Sharesdamages.
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Samples: Limited Partnership Agreement (Arden Realty Group Inc)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in Sections 11.1.C, 11.2.B and 11.2.C hereof.
B. Except as set forth in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B11.2.C below, the General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its the sole and absolute discretion, and only upon discretion of the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1Limited Partners. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of the Limited Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority in Interest of the remaining Limited Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. C. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination may merge with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests entity if (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(ai) in connection with such Termination Transaction all therewith the Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other receive property with a value equal in value to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder Partners would have received had it the exercised its right to the Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units Rights immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender merger or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted (ii) immediately after such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) merger substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned of the surviving entity, other than the General Partner Interest held by the surviving entity General Partner, are held directly or indirectly by contributed to the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of as a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Capital Contribution in exchange for Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT SharesUnits.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Newcastle Investment Corp)
Transfer of General Partner’s Partnership Interest. A. Except The General Partner may not Transfer any of its General Partner Interest or withdraw from the Partnership except as provided in connection with a Termination Transaction permitted under Section 11.2.B, the 11.2.B hereof.
B. The General Partner shall not withdraw from the Partnership and shall not transfer Transfer all or any portion of its interest in the Partnership (whether by sale, disposition, statutory merger or consolidation, liquidation or otherwise), other than to an Affiliate, ) without the Consent of the Limited a Majority of Remaining Partners, which Consent may be given or withheld by each Limited Partner in its their sole and absolute discretion, and only upon the admission of a successor General Partner pursuant to Section 12.1. Upon any transfer Transfer of such a Partnership Interest pursuant to the Consent of such Partners and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.211.2.B, the transferee shall of the Limited Partners become a substitute successor General Partner for all purposes herein, and shall be vested with the powers and rights of the transferor General Partner, and shall be liable for all obligations and responsible for all duties of the General Partner, once such transferee has executed such instruments as may be necessary to effectuate such admission and to confirm the agreement of such transferee to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Partnership Interest so acquired. It is a condition to any transfer Transfer otherwise permitted hereunder that the transferee assumes, by operation of law or express agreement, all of the obligations of the transferor General Partner under this Agreement with respect to such transferred Transferred Partnership Interest, and no such transfer (other than pursuant to a statutory merger or consolidation wherein all obligations and liabilities of the transferor General Partner are assumed by a successor corporation by operation of law) Transfer shall relieve the transferor General Partner of its obligations under this Agreement without the Consent of the Limited Partners, in their reasonable discretion. In the event that the General Partner withdraws from the Partnership, in violation of this Agreement or otherwise, or otherwise dissolves or terminates, or upon the Incapacity bankruptcy of the General Partner, all a Majority of the remaining Remaining Partners may elect to continue the Partnership business by selecting a substitute successor General Partner in accordance with the Act.
B. The General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another person, sale of all or substantially all of its assets or any reclassification, recapitalization or change of its outstanding equity interests (“Termination Transaction”) unless (1) the Termination Transaction has been approved by a Consent of the Partners and (2) either clause (a) or (b) below is satisfied:
(a) in connection with such Termination Transaction all Limited Partners either will receive, or will have the right to elect to receive, for each Common Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share in connection with the Termination Transaction; provided, that, if, in connection with the Termination Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding REIT Shares, each Holder of Common Units shall receive, or shall have the right to elect to receive, the greatest amount of cash, securities, or other property which such holder would have received had it exercised its right to Redemption (as set forth in Section 8.6) and received REIT Shares in exchange for its Common Units immediately prior to the expiration of such purchase, tender or exchange offer and had thereupon accepted such purchase, tender or exchange offer and then such Termination Transaction shall have been consummated; or
(b) the following conditions are met: (i) substantially all of the assets directly or indirectly owned by the surviving entity are held directly or indirectly by the Partnership or another limited partnership or limited liability company which is the survivor of a merger, consolidation or combination of assets with the Partnership (in each case, the “Surviving Partnership”); (ii) the holders of Common-Equivalent Units own a percentage interest of the Surviving Partnership based on the relative fair market value of the net assets of the Partnership and the other net assets of the Surviving Partnership immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction; (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of such holders in the Surviving Partnership are at least as favorable as those in effect immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction and as those applicable to any other limited partners or non-managing members of the Surviving Partnership; and (iv) such rights of the Limited Partners include at least one of the following: (a) the right to redeem their interests in the Surviving Partnership for the consideration available to such persons pursuant to Section 11.2.B(a); or (b) the right to redeem their Common Units for cash on terms equivalent to those in effect with respect to their Common Units immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, or, if the ultimate controlling person of the Surviving Partnership has publicly traded common equity securities, such common equity securities, with an exchange ratio based on the determination of relative fair market value of such securities and the REIT Shares.
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Samples: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Excel Realty Trust Inc)