AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2011 AMONG INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC. AS BORROWER AND KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS INC AS CO-LEAD ARRANGER AND JOINT BOOK...
Exhibit 10.4
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2011
AMONG
INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC.
AS BORROWER
AND
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS INC
AS CO-LEAD ARRANGER AND JOINT BOOK MANAGER
AND
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
AS SYNDICATION AGENT
JPMORGAN SECURITIES LLC
AS CO-LEAD ARRANGER AND JOINT BOOK MANAGER
AND
CITIBANK, N.A.
AS CO-DOCUMENTATION AGENT
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.
AS CO-DOCUMENTATION AGENT
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS*
AS CO-DOCUMENTATION AGENT
AND
CERTAIN LENDERS
FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO,
AS LENDERS
*RBC Capital Markets is the global brand name for the corporate and investment banking business of Royal Bank of Canada and its affiliates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Ratable and Non Ratable Advances
Minimum Amount of Each Advance
Method of Selecting Types and Interest Periods for New Advances
Conversion and Continuation of Outstanding Advances
Changes in Interest Rate, Etc.
Rates Applicable After Default
Interest Payment Dates; Interest and Fee Basis
Notification of Advances, Interest Rates and Prepayments
Non-Receipt of Funds by the Administrative Agent
Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances
Termination or Increase in Revolving Commitment
ARTICLE IIA LETTER OF CREDIT SUBFACILITY
Procedure for Issuance of Facility Letters of Credit
Reimbursement Obligations; Duties of Issuing Bank
Payment of Reimbursement Obligations
Compensation for Facility Letters of Credit
Letter of Credit Collateral Account
ARTICLE III. CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES
Changes in Capital Adequacy Regulations
Availability of Types of Advances
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Lender Statements; Survival of Indemnity
ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
ARTICLE V. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
No Conflict; Government Consent
Financial Statements; Material Adverse Effect
Litigation and Guarantee Obligations
Public Utility Holding Company Act
Transaction in Best Interests of Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantors; Consideration
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Variable Interest Indebtedness
Indebtedness and Cash Flow Covenants
Amendments to Organizational Documents
ARTICLE VIII. ACCELERATION, WAIVERS, AMENDMENTS AND REMEDIES
ARTICLE IX. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Several Obligations; Benefits of the Agreement
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ARTICLE X. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
No Responsibility for Loans, Recitals, etc
Action on Instructions of Lenders
Employment of Agents and Counsel
Reliance on Documents; Counsel
Administrative Agent’s Reimbursement and Indemnification
Successor Administrative Agent
ARTICLE XI. SETOFF; RATABLE PAYMENTS
ARTICLE XII. BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS; PARTICIPATIONS
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated as of February 4, 2011, is among Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maryland (the “Borrower”), KeyBank National Association, a national banking association, and the several banks, financial institutions and other entities from time to time parties to the Agreement (collectively, the “Lenders”), and KeyBank National Association, not individually, but as “Administrative Agent”.
RECITALS
A.
The Borrower is primarily engaged in the business of purchasing, owning, operating, leasing and managing retail properties.
B.
The Borrower is qualified as a real estate investment trust under Section 856 of the Code.
C.
The Borrower and certain of the Lenders are parties to a Credit Agreement dated as of October 15, 2007, as amended by that certain Comprehensive Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of April 17, 2009 and Second Amendment thereto dated as of June 30, 2010 (collectively the “Original Credit Agreement”). This Agreement and the other Loan Documents, taken as whole, constitute an amendment and restatement of the Original Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents thereunder and not a novation, and the parties intend that all Advances outstanding thereunder shall continue to be Advances hereunder until repaid, and that all security interests in any Collateral created and perfected thereunder which is also Collateral hereunder shall continue to be security interests in such Collateral which relate back to the date that such security interests were first created and perfected and that the obligations of those Subsidiary Guarantors who were parties to the prior Subsidiary Guaranty with respect to the Borrower’s obligations under the Original Credit Agreement and are continuing as Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder shall continue in effect and relate back to the date such obligations were first undertaken, as such obligations may be expressly amended and restated hereunder.
D.
The Borrower has requested that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders enter into this Agreement to amend and restate the Original Credit Agreement to (i) increase the Aggregate Commitment thereunder, (ii) add a tranche of term Loans, (iii) extend the Facility Termination Date and (iv) modify certain of the terms thereof. The Administrative Agent and those existing and new Lenders executing this Agreement have agreed to do so on the terms set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
As used in this Agreement:
“ABR Applicable Margin” means, as of any date, the Applicable Margin used to determine the Floating Rate, as determined from time to time in accordance with the definition of “Applicable Margin”.
“Acquisition” means any transaction, or any series of related transactions, consummated on or after the date of this Agreement, by which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (i) acquires any going business or all or substantially all of the assets of any partnership, limited liability company, firm, corporation or division thereof, whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise or (ii) directly or indirectly acquires (in one transaction or as the most recent transaction in a series of transactions) at least a majority (in number of votes) of the securities of a corporation which have ordinary voting power for the election of directors (other than securities having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) or a majority (by percentage or voting power) of the outstanding partnership or membership interests of a partnership or limited liability company.
“Adjusted Collateral Pool NOI” means, as of any date, (A) an annualized amount calculated by multiplying the then-current Collateral Pool NOI times two (2) less (B) an annualized amount calculated by multiplying the Capital Expenditure Reserve Deduction for the two (2) fiscal quarters to which such Collateral Pool NOI applies times two (2). To the extent that the aggregate amount of base and minimum rentals included in then-current Collateral Pool NOI attributable to a single tenant (or any group of tenants which are Affiliates of each other) would exceed ten percent (10%) of the total base and minimum rentals included in such Collateral Pool NOI, such excess shall be excluded from such Collateral Pool NOI for purposes of the calculations under this definition.
“Adjusted EBITDA” means, as of any date, the Consolidated Net Income for the most recent four (4) full fiscal quarters of the Borrower for which financial results have been reported, as adjusted, without duplication, by (i) deducting therefrom any income attributable to Excluded Tenants; (ii) adding or deducting for, as appropriate, any adjustment made under GAAP for straight lining of rents, gains or losses from sales of assets, extraordinary items, impairment and other non-cash charges, depreciation, amortization, interest expenses, taxes and the Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in Investment Affiliates; (iii) deducting therefrom the Capital Expenditure Reserve Deduction for such period and (iv) adding back all master lease income (not to exceed 5% of Consolidated Net Income).
“Administrative Agent” means KeyBank National Association in its capacity as agent for the Lenders pursuant to Article X, and not in its individual capacity as a Lender, and any successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Article X.
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“Advance” means a borrowing hereunder consisting of the aggregate amount of the several Loans made by one or more of the Lenders to the Borrower of the same Type and, in the case of LIBOR Rate Advances, for the same Interest Period, including without limitation Swingline Advances.
“Affiliate” of any Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person. A Person shall be deemed to control another Person if the controlling Person owns 10% or more of any class of voting securities (or other ownership interests) of the controlled Person or possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of the controlled Person, whether through ownership of stock, by contract or otherwise.
“Aggregate Commitment” means, as of any date, the aggregate of the then-current Term Commitments and Revolving Commitments of all the Lenders, which is, as of the Agreement Effective Date, $585,000,000.
“Agreement” is defined in the Recitals hereto.
“Agreement Effective Date” means the date this Agreement has been fully executed and delivered by the Borrower and the Lenders and the conditions set forth in Section 4.1 have been fulfilled or waived in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate of interest per annum equal to the higher of (i) the Prime Rate for such day, (ii) the sum of Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day plus 0.5% per annum, and (iii) the sum of the LIBOR Base Rate for a LIBOR Interest Period of one day, as determined by the Administrative Agent, plus 1.0% per annum.
“Applicable Margin” means the applicable margin set forth in the pricing schedule contained in Exhibit A used in calculating the interest rate applicable to the various Types of Advances, subject to the conditions set forth in Exhibit A with respect to the effective date of changes in such applicable margins.
“Appraisal” means an MAI certified appraisal of a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property performed in accordance with FIRREA and Administrative Agent’s appraisal requirements by an appraiser selected and retained by Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, at Borrower’s expense.
“Appraised Values” means, as of any date, the aggregate as-is values of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties as established by the most recent Appraisals thereof.
“Article” means an article of this Agreement unless another document is specifically referenced.
“Authorized Officer” means any of the President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, or the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, or the Chief Accounting Officer of the Borrower, or any other executive officer or authorized agent approved by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders acting singly.
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“Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, such Person becomes the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment, provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority or instrumentality thereof, provided, further, that such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.
“Borrower” is defined in the Recitals hereto.
“Borrowing Date” means a date on which an Advance is made hereunder.
“Borrowing Notice” is defined in Section 2.9.
“Business Day” means (i) with respect to any borrowing, payment or rate selection of LIBOR Rate Advances, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks generally are open in Cleveland, Ohio, Charlotte, N.C. and New York, New York for the conduct of substantially all of their commercial lending activities and on which dealings in United States dollars are carried on in the London interbank market and (ii) for all other purposes, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks generally are open in Cleveland, Ohio, Charlotte, N.C. and New York, New York for the conduct of substantially all of their commercial lending activities.
“Capital Expenditure Reserve Deduction” means, with respect to any group of Projects for any period, the sum of (a) $0.15 per annum per gross leaseable square foot times the weighted average gross leaseable area of those Projects owned by the Consolidated Group at any time during such period which are retail Projects (including mixed-use Projects that are primarily retail, but excluding “triple net” retail Projects which are instead included in clause (b) of this sentence), (b) $0.10 per annum per gross leaseable or net rentable, as applicable, square foot times the weighted average square footage of Projects owned by the Consolidated Group at any time during such period which are Projects leased on a “triple net” basis and (c) $0.25 per annum per gross leasable or net rentable, as applicable, square foot times the weighted average square footage of Projects owned by the Consolidated Group at any time during such period which are not included in clause (a) or clause (b) of this sentence.
“Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person which is not a corporation and any and all warrants or options to purchase any of the foregoing.
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“Capitalization Rate” means eight percent (8.0%).
“Capitalized Lease” of a Person means any lease of Property imposing obligations on such Person, as lessee thereunder, which are required in accordance with GAAP to be capitalized on a balance sheet of such Person.
“Capitalized Lease Obligations” of a Person means the amount of the obligations of such Person under Capitalized Leases which would be shown as a liability on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Equivalents” means, as of any date:
(i)
securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States Government or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than one year from such date;
(ii)
mutual funds organized under the United States Investment Company Act rated AAm or AAm-G by S&P and P-1 by Xxxxx’x;
(iii)
certificates of deposit or other interest-bearing obligations of a bank or trust company which is a member in good standing of the Federal Reserve System having a short term unsecured debt rating of not less than A-1 by S&P and not less than P-1 by Xxxxx’x (or in each case, if no bank or trust company is so rated, the highest comparable rating then given to any bank or trust company, but in such case only for funds invested overnight or over a weekend) provided that such investments shall mature or be redeemable upon the option of the holders thereof on or prior to a date one month from the date of their purchase;
(iv)
certificates of deposit or other interest-bearing obligations of a bank or trust company which is a member in good standing of the Federal Reserve System having a short term unsecured debt rating of not less than A-1+ by S&P, and not less than P-1 by Xxxxx’x and which has a long term unsecured debt rating of not less than A1 by Xxxxx’x (or in each case, if no bank or trust company is so rated, the highest comparable rating then given to any bank or trust company, but in such case only for funds invested overnight or over a weekend) provided that such investments shall mature or be redeemable upon the option of the holders thereof on or prior to a date three months from the date of their purchase;
(v)
bonds or other obligations having a short term unsecured debt rating of not less than A-1+ by S&P and P-1+ by Xxxxx’x and having a long term debt rating of not less than A1 by Xxxxx’x issued by or by authority of any state of the United States, any territory or possession of the United States, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and agencies thereof, or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing;
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(vi)
repurchase agreements issued by an entity rated not less than A-1+ by S&P, and not less than P-1 by Xxxxx’x which are secured by U.S. Government securities of the type described in clause (i) of this definition maturing on or prior to a date one month from the date the repurchase agreement is entered into;
(vii)
short term promissory notes rated not less than A-1+ by S&P, and not less than P-1 by Xxxxx’x maturing or to be redeemable upon the option of the holders thereof on or prior to a date one month from the date of their purchase; and
(viii)
commercial paper (having original maturities of not more than 365 days) rated at least A-1+ by S&P and P-1 by Xxxxx’x and issued by a foreign or domestic issuer who, at the time of the investment, has outstanding long-term unsecured debt obligations rated at least A1 by Xxxxx’x.
“Change in Control” means, at any time prior to the first date on which the Capital Stock of the Borrower is publicly traded on a national exchange, the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder as in effect on the date hereof) of Capital Stock representing more than 50% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the Borrower
“Change in Management” means the failure of at least one of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx to continue to be active on a daily basis in the management of the Borrower provided that if all of such individuals shall die or become disabled or otherwise cease being active on a daily basis in the management of the Borrower, the Borrower shall have one hundred (120) days to retain a replacement executive of comparable experience who is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, reformed or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Collateral” means all of the property, rights and interests of Borrower and its Subsidiaries that are subject to the security interests and Liens created by the Security Documents.
“Collateral Inclusion Conditions” is defined in Section 2.3(a).
“Collateral Pool” means, as of any date, all Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties which are then encumbered by Mortgages.
“Collateral Pool Debt Service” means, as of any date, an imputed annual amount of principal and interest that would be due on the Outstanding Facility Amount as of the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter of Borrower for which financial results have been reported if the Outstanding Facility Amount were a fully amortizing loan with equal monthly payments of
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principal and interest over a period of thirty years at a per annum interest rate equal to the greater of (a) 7.00% and (b) the sum of (i) the then current yield on obligations of the United States Treasury having the closest maturity date to the tenth (10th) anniversary of such date of calculation, and (ii) 2.50%.
“Collateral Pool Debt Service Coverage” means the Adjusted Collateral Pool NOI divided by Collateral Pool Debt Service.
“Collateral Pool Leverage Ratio” means the Outstanding Facility Amount divided by Collateral Pool Value, expressed as a percentage.
“Collateral Pool NOI” means, as of any date, the sum of (a) the aggregate Net Operating Income for the most recent two (2) full fiscal quarters for which financial results of Borrower have been reported attributable to Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties owned for the entirety of such period plus, (b) in the case of any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property that was owned as of the last day of such period of two (2) fiscal quarters, but not so owned for the full period, the amount of Net Operating Income that would have been earned if such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property had been so owned for such period of two (2) full fiscal quarters, as established by Borrower and reasonably approved by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders.
“Collateral Pool Value” means, as of any date, (i) prior to the date on which financial results of Borrower for the quarter ending December 31, 2011 have been reported, the aggregate Appraised Values of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties then owned by Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor and included in the Collateral Pool (provided that the Appraised Values of the initial Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties used for the initial determination of Collateral Pool Value as of the Agreement Effective Date have not been finalized, but shall be finalized within thirty (30) days thereafter and upon such finalization Borrower shall take any action that may be required hereunder to reflect the resulting change, if any, in Collateral Pool Value), (ii) at all times after such date, the sum of (A) with respect to all Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties then owned by Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor and included in the Collateral Pool which were so owned by Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor at all times during the most recent four (4) full fiscal quarters for which financial results of Borrower have been reported, the aggregate Adjusted Collateral Pool NOI attributable thereto (provided that the contribution to such aggregate Adjusted Collateral Pool NOI on account of any Project shall not in any event be a negative number) divided by the Capitalization Rate, provided that the contribution to Collateral Pool Value under this clause (A) on account of any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property which is a Single Tenant Project shall not, in any event, exceed the most recent Appraised Value of such Single Tenant Project; plus (B) with respect to all Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties not so owned at all times during such four (4) full fiscal quarters, the aggregate acquisition cost thereof. For purposes of this definition, (i) to the extent that the aggregate contribution to Collateral Pool Value on account of Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties which are occupied pursuant to Financeable Ground Leases would exceed fifteen percent (15%) of Collateral Pool Value, such excess shall be excluded, (ii) to the extent that the aggregate contribution to Collateral Pool Value on account of any single Qualifying Collateral Pool Property (other than either of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties commonly known as South Park Xxxxxxx II and Boulevard at the Cap Center) would exceed twenty percent (20%)
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of Collateral Pool Value, such excess shall be excluded; (iii) to the extent that the aggregate contribution to Collateral Pool Value on account of Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties which are Single Tenant Projects where the remaining unexpired term of the Lease to the tenant of such Single Tenant Project (without giving effect to any unexercised options of such tenant to extend the term of such Lease) is less than five (5) years, would exceed $120,000,000, such excess shall be excluded. and (iv) to the extent that, after the second (2nd) anniversary of the Agreement Effective Date, the aggregate contribution to Collateral Pool Value on account of Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties which are Single Tenant Projects where the remaining unexpired term of the Lease to the tenant of such Single Tenant Project (without giving effect to any unexercised options of such tenant to extend the term of such Lease) is less than five (5) years, would exceed twenty percent (20%) of Collateral Pool Value, such excess shall be excluded. The Collateral Pool Value must exceed $350,000,000 at all times and there must be at least ten (10) Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties at all times, as required under Section 6.21(vi). In addition, in the case of any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property where the maximum principal liability of the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor owning such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property has been limited in the related Mortgage due to mortgage tax, the amount contributed to Collateral Pool Value on account of such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property shall not in any event exceed such stated maximum principal liability.
“Commitment” means for each Lender collectively, such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and Term Commitment.
“Consolidated Debt Service” means, for any period, without duplication, (a) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period plus (b) the aggregate amount of scheduled principal payments attributable to Consolidated Outstanding Indebtedness (excluding optional principal payments, principal payments contingent on excess cash flow from a related Project and balloon payments made at maturity in respect of any such Indebtedness), plus (c) a percentage of all such principal payments made during such period by any Investment Affiliate on Indebtedness taken into account in calculating Consolidated Interest Expense, equal to the greater of (x) the percentage of the principal amount of such Indebtedness for which any member of the Consolidated Group is liable and (y) the Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of such Investment Affiliate.
“Consolidated Group” means the Borrower and all Subsidiaries which are consolidated with it for financial reporting purposes under GAAP.
“Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to any Investment Affiliate, the percentage of the total equity ownership interests held by the Consolidated Group in the aggregate, in such Investment Affiliate determined by calculating the greater of (i) the percentage of the issued and outstanding stock, partnership interests or membership interests in such Investment Affiliate held by the Consolidated Group in the aggregate and (ii) the percentage of the total book value of such Investment Affiliate that would be received by the Consolidated Group in the aggregate, upon liquidation of such Investment Affiliate, after repayment in full of all Indebtedness of such Investment Affiliate.
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“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period without duplication, the sum of (a) the amount of interest expense, determined in accordance with GAAP, of the Consolidated Group for such period attributable to Consolidated Outstanding Indebtedness during such period plus (b) the applicable Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of any interest expense, determined in accordance with GAAP, of each Investment Affiliate, for such period, whether recourse or non-recourse.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, consolidated net income (or loss) of the Consolidated Group for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Worth” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) Total Asset Value minus (b) Consolidated Outstanding Indebtedness as of such date.
“Consolidated NOI” means, as of any date, for any entity or group of entities without duplication, the aggregate Net Operating Income for the most recent fiscal four (4) quarters for which financial results have been reported from all Projects owned by such entity or group of entities as of the end of such period of four (4) fiscal quarters.
“Consolidated Outstanding Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, without duplication, the sum of (a) all Indebtedness of the Consolidated Group outstanding at such date, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (whether recourse or non-recourse), plus, without duplication, (b) the applicable Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of any Indebtedness of each Investment Affiliate other than Indebtedness of such Investment Affiliate to a member of the Consolidated Group.
“Construction in Progress” means, as of any date, the book value of any Projects then under development provided that a Project shall no longer be included in Construction in Progress and shall be valued based on its Net Operating Income upon the earlier of (i) the expiration of the second full fiscal quarter after substantial completion (which shall mean the receipt of a temporary certificate of occupancy or a final certificate of occupancy) of such Project and (ii) the last day of the first full fiscal quarter in which the Net Operating Income attributable to such Project for such fiscal quarter multiplied by four (4) and then divided by the Capitalization Rate exceeds the book value of such Project.
“Controlled Group” means all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, are treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“Conversion/Continuation Notice” is defined in Section 2.10.
“Credit Party” means the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank , the Swingline Lender or any other Lender.
“Default” means an event described in Article VII.
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“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, that (a) has failed, within three (3) Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund any portion of its Loans, (ii) fund any portion of its participations in Facility Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans or (iii) pay over to any Credit Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Borrower or any Credit Party in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding a loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations (and is financially able to meet such obligations) to fund prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans under this Agreement, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to it, or (d) has become the subject of a Bankruptcy Event.
“Default Rate” means the interest rate which may apply during the continuance of a Default pursuant to Section 2.12.
“Disclosure Letter” means that certain letter from Borrower addressed to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders and dated as of the Agreement Effective Date, which discloses certain matters which are exceptions to certain of the representations, warranties and covenants of Borrower under this Agreement.
“Dividend Payout Ratio” means, for any given period of time for any Person, the ratio of (a) an amount equal to (i) 100% of all dividends or other distributions, direct or indirect, on account of any equity interest of such Person (except dividends or distributions payable solely in additional equity interests of the same class) during such period, less (ii) any amount of such dividends or distributions constituting Dividend Reinvestment Proceeds, to (b) Funds From Operations of such Person for such period.
“Dividend Reinvestment Proceeds” means all dividends or other distributions, direct or indirect, on account of any equity interest of any Person which any holder(s) of such equity interest directs to be used, concurrently with the making of such dividend or distribution, for the purpose of purchasing for the account of such holder(s) additional equity interests in such Person or its subsidiaries.
“Eligible Assignee” means (a) another Lender, (b) with respect to any Lender, any Affiliate of that Lender or fund related to such Lender, (c) any commercial bank having a combined capital and surplus of $5,000,000,000 or more, (d) the central bank of any country
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which is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, (e) any savings bank, savings and loan association or similar financial institution which (A) has a net worth of $500,000,000 or more, (B) is engaged in the business of lending money and extending credit under credit facilities substantially similar to those extended under this Agreement and (C) is operationally and procedurally able to meet the obligations of a Lender hereunder to the same degree as a commercial bank, and (f) any other financial institution (including a mutual fund or other fund) approved by the Administrative Agent and, unless a Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Borrower (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and the failure of Borrower to expressly grant or deny any such approval within five (5) days after written request being deemed to be the grant of such approval) having total assets of $500,000,000 or more which meets the requirements set forth in subclauses (B) and (C) of clause (e) above; provided that each Eligible Assignee must either (a) be organized under the Laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia or (b) be organized under the Laws of the Cayman Islands or any country which is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or a political subdivision of such a country, and (i) act hereunder through a branch, agency or funding office located in the United States of America and (ii) be exempt from withholding of tax on interest. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, at no time shall Borrower, its Affiliates, or any Subsidiary thereof, be considered an “Eligible Assignee.”
“Environmental Laws” means any and all foreign, Federal, state, local or municipal laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees, requirements of any Governmental Authority or other Requirements of Law (including common law) regulating, relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning protection of human health or the environment, as now or may at any time hereafter be in effect, in each case to the extent the foregoing are applicable to the Borrower or any Subsidiaries or any of its respective assets or Projects.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any rule or regulation issued thereunder.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means, a Subsidiary which is (A) a single-purpose entity which owns only Projects subject to Secured Indebtedness and which has restrictions on the creation of any Guarantee Obligations or additional Indebtedness and other safeguards typically imposed on such single-purpose entities in secured financings or (B) an entity which is primarily engaged in the provision of services and does not own any Projects or (C) any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower.
“Excluded Taxes” means, in the case of each Lender or applicable Lending Installation and the Administrative Agent, taxes imposed on its overall net income, and franchise taxes imposed on it, by any jurisdiction with taxing authority over the Lender.
“Excluded Tenants” means, as of any date, (i) any anchor tenant or (ii) any non-anchor tenant leasing more than 15,000 square feet of gross leaseable area at one of the Projects that, in either case, either (a) is subject to a voluntary or involuntary petition for relief under any federal or state bankruptcy codes or insolvency law or (b) is not operating its business in its
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demised premises at such Project unless such non-operating tenant’s lease obligations are guaranteed by an entity whose then current long-term, unsecured debt obligations are rated BBB- or above by S&P and Baa3 or above by Moody’s.
“Existing Facility Letters of Credit” means those Facility Letters of Credit issued under the Original Credit Agreement, as identified on Schedule 3 attached hereto, which shall remain outstanding on the Agreement Effective Date and constitute Facility Letters of Credit under this Agreement.
“Extension Notice” is defined in Section 2.1.
“Facility Letter of Credit” means a Letter of Credit issued hereunder plus the Existing Facility Letters of Credit.
“Facility Letter of Credit Fee” is defined in Section 2A.8.
“Facility Letter of Credit Obligations” means, as at the time of determination thereof, all liabilities, whether actual or contingent, of the Borrower with respect to Facility Letters of Credit, including the sum of (a) the Reimbursement Obligations and (b) the aggregate undrawn face amount of the then outstanding Facility Letters of Credit.
“Facility Letter of Credit Sublimit” means $50,000,000.
“Facility Termination Date” means February 3, 2013, as such date may be extended pursuant to Section 2.1.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum (rounded upward to the nearest one one-hundredth of one percent (1/100 of 1%)) announced by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on such day as being the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions arranged by federal funds brokers on the previous trading day, as computed and announced by such Federal Reserve Bank in substantially the same manner as such Federal Reserve Bank computes and announces the weighted average it refers to as the “Federal Funds Effective Rate.”
“Fee Letter” is defined in Section 2.6.
“Financeable Ground Lease” means, a ground lease reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders, which must provide customary protections for a potential leasehold mortgagee (“Mortgagee”) such as (i) a remaining term, including any optional extension terms exercisable unilaterally by the tenant, of no less than 25 years, (ii) a provision that the ground lease will not be terminated until the Mortgagee has received notice of a default, has had a reasonable opportunity to cure and has failed to do so, (iii) provision for a new lease to the Mortgagee as tenant on the same terms if the ground lease is terminated for any reason, (iv) transferability of the tenant’s interest under the ground lease by the Mortgagee without any requirement for consent of the ground lessor unless based on delivery of customary assignment and assumption agreements from the transferor and transferee, (v) the ability of the tenant to mortgage tenant’s interest under the ground lease without any requirement for
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consent of the ground lessor and (iv) provisions that the tenant under the ground lease (or the leasehold mortgagee) has customary protections with respect to the application of insurance proceeds or condemnation awards attributable to the tenant’s interest under the ground lease and related improvements.
“Financial Contract” of a Person means (i) any exchange - traded or over-the-counter futures, forward, swap or option contract or other financial instrument with similar characteristics, or (ii) any Rate Management Transaction.
“Financial Undertaking” of a Person means (i) any transaction which is the functional equivalent of or takes the place of borrowing but which does not constitute a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person, or (ii) any agreements, devices or arrangements designed to protect at least one of the parties thereto from the fluctuations of interest rates, exchange rates or forward rates applicable to such party’s assets, liabilities or exchange transactions, including, but not limited to, interest rate exchange agreements, forward currency exchange agreements, interest rate cap or collar protection agreements, forward rate currency or interest rate options.
“First Mortgage Receivable” means any Indebtedness owing to a member of the Consolidated Group which is secured by a first-priority mortgage, deed to secure debt or deed of trust on commercial real estate having a value in excess of the amount of such Indebtedness and which has been designated by the Borrower as a “First Mortgage Receivable” in its most recent compliance certificate.
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means (i) Adjusted EBITDA divided by (ii) the sum of (A) Consolidated Debt Service for the most recent four (4) fiscal quarters for which financial results have been reported, plus (B) all Preferred Dividends, if any, payable with respect to such four (4) fiscal quarters.
“Floating Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to (i) the Alternate Base Rate for such day plus (ii) ABR Applicable Margin for such day, in each case changing when and as the Alternate Base Rate and ABR Applicable Margin change.
“Floating Rate Advance” means an Advance which bears interest at the Floating Rate.
“Floating Rate Loan” means a Loan which bears interest at the Floating Rate.
“Funds From Operations” means, with respect to a Person and for a given period, an amount equal to the net income (or loss) of such Person for such period, computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding gains (or losses) from extraordinary items, impairment and other non-cash charges, plus real estate depreciation and amortization, and after adjustments for unconsolidated affiliates.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the financial statements referred to in Section 6.1.
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“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government.
“Guarantee Obligation” means, as to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”), any obligation (determined without duplication) of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another Person (including, without limitation, any bank under any Letter of Credit) to induce the creation of which the guaranteeing person has issued a reimbursement, counter-indemnity or similar obligation, in either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the “primary obligations”) of any other third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefore, (ii) to advance or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business or guarantees by the Borrower of liabilities under any interest rate lock agreement utilized to facilitate Secured Indebtedness of another member of the Consolidated Group or an Investment Affiliate. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing Person shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of the primary obligation relating to such Guarantee Obligation (or, if less, the maximum stated liability set forth in the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation), provided, that in the absence of any such stated amount or stated liability, the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing Person’s reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith with respect to any such Guarantee Obligations of the Consolidated Group.
“Hazardous Materials” means all contaminants, vibrations, sound, odor, explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, mold, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
“Indebtedness” of any Person at any date means without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money including without limitation any repurchase obligation or liability of such Person with respect to securities, accounts or notes receivable sold by such Person, (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than current trade liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business and payable in accordance with customary practices), to the extent such obligations constitute indebtedness for the purposes of GAAP (excluding premiums or discounts on debt required to be recognized under GAAP), (c) any other indebtedness of such Person which is evidenced by a note, bond, debenture or similar instrument, (d) all Capitalized Lease Obligations, (e) all
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obligations of such Person in respect of acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person, (f) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person (excluding in any calculation of consolidated Indebtedness of the Consolidated Group, Guarantee Obligations of one member of the Consolidated Group in respect of primary obligations of any other member of the Consolidated Group), (g) all reimbursement obligations of such Person for letters of credit and other contingent liabilities, (h) any Net Xxxx-to-Market Exposure and (i) all liabilities secured by any Lien (other than Liens for taxes not yet due and payable) on any property owned by such Person even though such Person has not assumed or otherwise become liable for the payment thereof.
“Interest Period” means a LIBOR Interest Period.
“Investment” of a Person means any Property owned by such Person, including without limitation, any loan, advance (other than commission, travel and similar advances to officers and employees made in the ordinary course of business), extension of credit (other than accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business on terms customary in the trade), deposit account or contribution of capital by such Person to any other Person or any investment in, or purchase or other acquisition of, the stock, partnership interests, notes, debentures or other securities of any other Person made by such Person.
“Investment Affiliate” means any Person in which the Consolidated Group, directly or indirectly, has a ten percent (10%) or greater ownership interest, whose financial results are not consolidated under GAAP with the financial results of the Consolidated Group.
“Issuance Date” is defined in Section 2A.4(a)(2).
“Issuance Notice” is defined in Section 2A.4(c).
“Issuing Bank” means, with respect to each Facility Letter of Credit, the Lender which issues such Facility Letter of Credit. KeyBank shall be the sole Issuing Bank.
“Leases” shall mean, collectively, all leases, subleases and occupancy agreements affecting the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, or any part thereof, now existing or hereafter executed and all material amendments, material modifications or supplements thereto.
“Lenders” means the lending institutions listed on the signature pages hereof, their respective successors and assigns, and any other lending institutions that subsequently become parties to this Agreement.
“Lending Installation” means, with respect to a Lender, any office, branch, subsidiary or affiliate of such Lender.
“Letter of Credit” of a Person means a letter of credit or similar instrument which is issued upon the application of such Person or upon which such Person is an account party or for which such Person is in any way liable.
“Letter of Credit Collateral Account” is defined in Section 2A.9.
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“Letter of Credit Request” is defined in Section 2A.4(a).
“Leverage Ratio” means Consolidated Outstanding Indebtedness divided by Total Asset Value, expressed as a percentage.
“LIBOR Applicable Margin” means, as of any date with respect to any LIBOR Interest Period, the Applicable Margin used to determine the LIBOR Rate as determined from time to time in accordance with the definition of “Applicable Margin”.
“LIBOR Base Rate” means, with respect to a LIBOR Rate Advance for the relevant LIBOR Interest Period, the applicable British Bankers’ Association LIBOR rate (rounded upwards to the nearest 1/16th) for deposits in U.S. dollars as reported by any generally recognized financial information service as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such LIBOR Interest Period, and having a maturity equal to such LIBOR Interest Period, provided that, if no such British Bankers’ Association LIBOR rate is available to the Administrative Agent, the applicable LIBOR Base Rate for the relevant LIBOR Interest Period shall instead be the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate at which KeyBank or one of its Affiliate banks offers to place deposits in U.S. dollars with first class banks in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such LIBOR Interest Period, in the approximate amount of the relevant LIBOR Rate Advance and having a maturity equal to such LIBOR Interest Period.
“LIBOR Interest Period” means, with respect to each amount bearing interest at a LIBOR based rate, a period of one, two, three, six or twelve months, to the extent deposits in the London interbank market with such maturities are available to the Lenders, commencing on a Business Day, as selected by Borrower; provided, however, that (i) any LIBOR Interest Period which would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day shall continue to and end on the next succeeding Business Day, unless the result would be that such LIBOR Interest Period would be extended to the next succeeding calendar month, in which case such LIBOR Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (ii) any LIBOR Interest Period which begins on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding date in the calendar month in which such LIBOR Interest Period would otherwise end shall instead end on the last Business Day of such calendar month. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any one time there will be no more than seven (7) LIBOR Interest Periods outstanding.
“LIBOR Loan” means a Loan which bears interest at a LIBOR Rate.
“LIBOR Rate” means, for any LIBOR Interest Period, the sum of (A) the LIBOR Base Rate applicable thereto divided by one minus the then-current Reserve Requirement and (B) the LIBOR Applicable Margin in effect from time to time during the applicable LIBOR Interest Period, changing when and as the LIBOR Applicable Margin changes.
“LIBOR Rate Advance” means an Advance which bears interest at a LIBOR Rate.
“LIBOR Rate Loan” means a Loan which bears interest at a LIBOR Rate.
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“Lien” means any lien (statutory or other), mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale, Capitalized Lease or other title retention agreement).
“Loan” means, with respect to a Lender, such Lender’s portion of any borrowing hereunder by the Borrower.
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Disclosure Letter, the Subsidiary Guaranty, the Notes, the Security Documents and any other document from time to time evidencing or securing indebtedness incurred by the Borrower under this Agreement, as any of the foregoing may be amended or modified from time to time.
“Majority Lenders” means Lenders holding a majority of the Percentages.
“Management Fees”, means, with respect to each Project for any period, an amount equal to the greater of (i) actual management fees payable with respect thereto and (ii) three percent (3%) per annum on the aggregate base rent and percentage rent due and payable under leases at such Project.
“Marketable Securities” means Investments in Capital Stock or debt securities issued by any Person (other than an Investment Affiliate) which are publicly traded on a national exchange, excluding Cash Equivalents.
“Material Adverse Effect” means, in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, a material adverse effect on (i) the business, property or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) the ability of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, taken as a whole, to perform their obligations under the Loan Documents, or (iii) the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents.
“Materials of Environmental Concern” means any gasoline or petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) or petroleum products or any hazardous or toxic substances, materials or wastes, defined or regulated as such in or under any Environmental Law, including, without limitation, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and urea-formaldehyde insulation.
“Maximum Legal Rate” means the maximum nonusurious interest rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received on the indebtedness evidenced by the Note and as provided for herein or in the Note or other Loan Documents, under the laws of such state or states whose laws are held by any court of competent jurisdiction to govern the interest rate provisions hereof.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.
“Mortgages” shall mean first priority, recorded mortgages or deeds of trust encumbering the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties which are wholly owned by Subsidiary Guarantors which are Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of Borrower, executed in each case by a Subsidiary
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Guarantor and securing the Obligations in substantially the same form as is attached hereto as Exhibit I and made a part hereof, with such modifications are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders, to be executed, delivered and recorded as provided herein, including without limitation those Mortgages so executed, delivered and recorded pursuant to the Original Credit Agreement as amended as provided herein.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a Plan maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or any other arrangement to which the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group is a party to which more than one employer is obligated to make contributions.
“Negative Pledge” means, with respect to a given asset, any provision of a document, instrument or agreement (other than any Loan Document) which prohibits or purports to prohibit the creation or assumption of any Lien on such asset as security for Indebtedness of the Person owning such asset or any other Person.
“Net Xxxx-to-Market Exposure” of a Person means, as of any date of determination, the excess (if any) of all unrealized losses over all unrealized profits of such Person arising from Rate Management Transactions or any other Financial Contract. “Unrealized losses” means the fair market value of the cost to such Person of replacing such Rate Management Transaction or other Financial Contract as of the date of determination (assuming the Rate Management Transaction or other Financial Contract were to be terminated as of that date), and “unrealized profits” means the fair market value of the gain to such Person of replacing such Rate Management Transaction or other Financial Contract as of the date of determination (assuming such Rate Management Transaction or other Financial Contract were to be terminated as of that date).
“Net Operating Income” means, with respect to any Project for any period, “property rental and other income” (as determined by GAAP) attributable to such Project accruing for such period, without regard for straight-lining of rents or any amortization related to above-market or below-market leases, plus all master lease income (not to exceed to 5% of Net Operating Income), minus the amount of all expenses (as determined in accordance with GAAP) incurred in connection with and directly attributable to the ownership and operation of such Project for such period, including, without limitation, Management Fees and amounts accrued for the payment of real estate taxes and insurance premiums, but excluding any general and administrative expenses related to the operation of the Borrower, any interest expense, or other debt service charges, impairment charges, the effects of straight-lining of ground lease rent, bad debt expenses related to the straight-lining of rents and any other non-cash charges such as depreciation or amortization of financing costs.
“Non-U.S. Lender” is defined in Section 3.5(iv).
“Note” means any one of those promissory notes dated in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto from Borrower in favor of the Lenders, including any amendment, modification, renewal or replacement of any such promissory note or of any note delivered under the Original Credit Agreement, provided that, at the request of any Lender, a Note payable to such Lender shall not be issued and the Obligations of the Borrower hereunder to such Lender shall be evidenced
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entirely by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the same effect as if a Note had been issued to such Lender.
“Notice of Assignment” is defined in Section 12.3.2.
“Obligations” means the Advances, the Facility Letters of Credit, the Reimbursement Obligations, and all accrued and unpaid fees and all other obligations of Borrower to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders arising under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, including all payments and other obligations that may accrue after the commencement of any action or proceeding described in Sections 7.7 and 7.8.
“One Day LIBOR Rate” means, with respect to Swingline Advances only, for any day, the sum of (A) an interpolated rate, as determined by the Swingline Lender in its sole discretion, for such day, equal to the LIBOR Base Rate that would apply to an Interest Period of one day plus (B) the LIBOR Applicable Margin.
“Original Credit Agreement” is defined in the Recitals to this Agreement.
“Other Taxes” is defined in Section 3.5(ii).
“Outstanding Facility Amount” means, at any time, the sum of all then outstanding Advances and Facility Letter of Credit Obligations.
“Outstanding Revolving Amount” means, at any time the sum of all then-outstanding Revolving Advances and Facility Letter of Credit Obligations.
“Parent” means, with respect to any Lender, any Person as to which such Lender is, directly or indirectly, a subsidiary.
“Participants” is defined in Section 12.2.1.
“Payment Date” means, with respect to the payment of interest accrued on any Advance, the fifteenth day of each calendar month.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or any successor thereto.
“Percentage” means for each Lender the ratio that such Lender’s combined Revolving Commitment and outstanding Term Loans bears to the Aggregate Commitment, or if the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, the ratio that such Lender’s combined outstanding Revolving Loans and outstanding Term Loans bears to the total outstanding Advances, in each case expressed as a percentage.
“Permitted Acquisitions” are defined in Section 6.15.
“Permitted Investments” are defined in Section 6.23.
“Permitted Liens” are defined in Section 6.16.
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“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, joint venture, partnership, association, enterprise, trust or other entity or organization, or any government or political subdivision or any agency, department or instrumentality thereof.
“Plan” means an employee pension benefit plan which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code as to which the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group may have any liability.
“Preferred Dividends” means, with respect to any entity, dividends or other distributions which are payable to holders of any ownership interests in such entity which entitle the holders of such ownership interests to be paid on a preferred basis prior to dividends or other distributions to the holders of other types of ownership interests in such entity, provided that distributions payable by IW JV 2009 LLC to Inland Equity Investors, LLC or any of its successors or assigns shall be excluded from ”Preferred Dividends”.
“Prime Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the prime rate of interest publicly announced from time to time by KeyBank or its parent as its prime rate (which is not necessarily the lowest rate charged to any customer), changing when and as said prime rate changes. In the event that there is a successor to the Administrative Agent by merger, or the Administrative Agent assigns its duties and obligations to an Affiliate, then the term “Prime Rate” as used in this Agreement shall mean the prime rate, base rate or other analogous rate of the new Administrative Agent.
“Project” means any real estate asset located in the United States owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any Investment Affiliate, and operated or intended to be operated as a retail property, a triple net office property, an industrial property or a mixed use property.
“Property” of a Person means any and all property, whether real, personal, tangible, intangible, or mixed, of such Person, or other assets owned, leased or operated by such Person.
“Purchasers” is defined in Section 12.3.1.
“Qualifying Collateral Pool Property” means any Project which, as of any date of determination, (a) located in the United States; (b) is wholly owned by a Subsidiary Guarantor, in fee simple or under the terms of a Financeable Ground Lease; (c) is encumbered by a Mortgage in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders; (d) is free of all structural defects or major architectural deficiencies, title defects, environmental conditions or other adverse matters except for defects, deficiencies, conditions or other matters individually or collectively which are not material to the profitable operation of such Project as evidenced by a certification of the Borrower, subject to the Administrative Agent’s approval, in its sole discretion; (e) is not, nor is any direct or indirect interest of the Borrower or any Subsidiary therein, subject to any Lien other than Permitted Liens set forth in clauses (i) through (iv) of Section 6.16 or to any Negative Pledge (other than the Liens and Negative Pledges created pursuant to this Agreement to secure the obligations of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors); (f) when
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aggregated with all other Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, results in the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties as a whole having at least eighty percent (80%) of their aggregate gross leaseable area physically occupied and (g) if such Project is a Single Tenant Project which is not either one of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties included in the Collateral Pool on the Agreement Effective Date or one of those Projects being proposed by Borrower for subsequent evaluation and admission as a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property as listed on Schedule 4 attached hereto, the remaining unexpired term of the Lease to the tenant of such Project (without giving effect to any unexercised options of such tenant to extend the terms of such Lease) was, as of the date such Project was first admitted as a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, not less than five (5) years.
“Rate Management Transaction” means any transaction (including an agreement with respect thereto) now existing or hereafter entered into by the Borrower which is a rate swap, basis swap, forward rate transaction, commodity swap, commodity option, equity or equity index swap, equity or equity index option, bond option, interest rate option, foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction, forward transaction, currency swap transaction, cross-currency rate swap transaction, currency option or any other similar transaction (including any option with respect to any of these transactions) or any combination thereof, whether linked to one or more interest rates, foreign currencies, commodity prices, equity prices or other financial measures.
“Recourse Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other member of the Consolidated Group with respect to which the liability of the obligor is not limited to the obligor’s interest in specified assets securing such Indebtedness, subject to customary limited exceptions for certain acts or types of liability such as environmental liability, fraud and other customary nonrecourse carveouts.
“Regulation D” means Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor thereto or other regulation or official interpretation of said Board of Governors relating to reserve requirements applicable to member banks of the Federal Reserve System.
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor or other regulation or official interpretation of said Board of Governors relating to the extension of credit by banks for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stocks applicable to member banks of the Federal Reserve System.
“Reimbursement Obligations” means at any time, the aggregate of the obligations of the Borrower to the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent in respect of all unreimbursed payments or disbursements made by the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent under or in respect of the Facility Letters of Credit.
“Release” means any releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, migrating, disposing, or dumping or any Hazardous Material into the environment.
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“Reportable Event” means a reportable event as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued under such section, with respect to a Plan, excluding, however, such events as to which the PBGC by regulation waived the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified within 30 days of the occurrence of such event, provided, however, that a failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code and of Section 302 of ERISA shall be a Reportable Event regardless of the issuance of any such waiver of the notice requirement in accordance with either Section 4043(a) of ERISA or Section 412(d) of the Code.
“Required Diligence” is defined in Section 2.3.
“Required Lenders” means Lenders in the aggregate having at least 66 2/3% of the Aggregate Commitment or, if the Aggregate Commitment has been terminated, Lenders in the aggregate holding at least 66 2/3% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the outstanding Advances, provided that, (i) the Commitments and Advances held by any then-current Defaulting Lender shall be subtracted from the Aggregate Commitment and the outstanding Advances solely for the purpose of calculating the Required Lenders at such time, (ii) at such times as there are less than four (4) Lenders the two references to “at least 66 2/3%” in this definition shall be changed to “more than 50%”, (iii) determination of Required Lenders for purposes of approving any portion of any proposed amendment to or waiver of any provision of the Agreement that affects the rights and obligations of the Lenders holding Term Commitments in a manner different from the corresponding amendment to or waiver of the rights and obligations of the Lenders holding the Revolving Commitments, approval shall only be deemed to be given if Lenders holding the applicable required percentage of just the aggregate Term Commitments or Term Advances, as applicable, have approved such action and (iv) determination of Required Lenders for purposes of approving any portion of any proposed amendment to or waiver of any provision of the Agreement that affects the rights and obligations of the Lenders holding Revolving Commitments in a manner different from the corresponding amendment to or waiver of the rights and obligations of the Lenders holding the Term Commitments, approval shall only be deemed to be given if Lenders holding the applicable required percentage of just the aggregate Revolving Commitments or Revolving Advances, as applicable, have approved such action .
“Reserve Requirement” means, with respect to a LIBOR Rate Loan and LIBOR Interest Period, that percentage (expressed as a decimal) which is in effect on such day, as prescribed by the Federal Reserve Board or other governmental authority or agency having jurisdiction with respect thereto for determining the maximum reserves (including, without limitation, basic, supplemental, marginal and emergency reserves) for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D) maintained by a member bank of the Federal Reserve System.
“Revolving Advance” means any Advance comprised solely of Revolving Loans.
“Revolving Commitment” means, for each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Revolving Loans on the terms and conditions set forth herein not exceeding the amount set forth opposite its signature below or as set forth in any Notice of Assignment relating to any
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assignment that has become effective pursuant to Section 12.3.2, as such amount may be modified from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Revolving Loan” means any Loan made pursuant to a Lender’s Revolving Commitment.
“Secured Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other member of the Consolidated Group which is secured by a Lien on a Project, any ownership interests in any Person or any other assets which had, in the aggregate, a value in excess of the amount of such Indebtedness at the time such Indebtedness was incurred.
“Security Documents” means the Mortgages, and any other security documents executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, including, without limitation, any UCC-1 financing statements delivered or authorized to be filed by the Administrative Agent in connection therewith.
“Section” means a numbered section of this Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.
“Single Employer Plan” means a Plan maintained by the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group for employees of the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group.
“Single Tenant Project” means any Project that is leased (or is being constructed to be leased) to a single tenant.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group and its successors.
“Subsidiary” of a Person means (i) any corporation more than 50% of the outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or similar business organization more than 50% of the ownership interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or controlled. Unless otherwise expressly provided, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” shall mean a Subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” means, as of any date, each Subsidiary of the Borrower which is then a party to the Subsidiary Guaranty pursuant to Section 6.26.
“Subsidiary Guaranty” means the guaranty to be executed and delivered by those Subsidiaries of the Borrower listed on Schedule 2, substantially in the form of Exhibit F, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time pursuant to Section 6.26, including any joinders executed by additional Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Substantial Portion” means, with respect to the Property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, Property which represents more than 10% of then-current Total Asset Value.
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“Swingline Advances” means, as of any date, collectively, all Swingline Loans then outstanding under this Facility.
“Swingline Commitment” means the obligation of the Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans not exceeding $50,000,000, which is included in, and is not in addition to, the Swingline Lender’s total Commitment hereunder.
“Swingline Lender” shall mean KeyBank National Association, in its capacity as a Lender, and at the option of a new Administrative Agent, any successor Administrative Agent.
“Swingline Loan” means a loan made by the Swingline Lender pursuant to Section 2.16 hereof.
“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and any and all liabilities with respect to the foregoing, but excluding Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes.
“Term Advance” means any Advance comprised solely of Term Loans.
“Term Commitment” means, for each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Term Loans on the terms and conditions set forth herein not exceeding the applicable amount set forth opposite its signature below or as set forth in any Notice of Assignment relating to any assignment that has become effective pursuant to Section 12.3.2, as such amount may be modified from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Term Loan” means any Loan made pursuant to a Lender’s Term Commitment.
“Total Asset Value” means, as of any date, (i) (A) the Consolidated NOI attributable to Projects owned by the Borrower or a member of the Consolidated Group (excluding 100% of the Consolidated NOI attributable to Projects not owned for at least four (4) full fiscal quarters as of the end of the fiscal quarter for which Consolidated NOI is calculated and provided that the contribution to Consolidated NOI on account of any Project shall not in any event be a negative number) divided by (B) the Capitalization Rate, plus (ii) 100% of the price paid for any such Projects first acquired by the Borrower or a member of the Consolidated Group during such four (4) fiscal quarter period, plus (iii) cash, Cash Equivalents and Marketable Securities owned by the Consolidated Group as of the end of such fiscal quarter, provided that the amount added to Total Asset Value on account of Marketable Securities shall not exceed 5% of Total Asset Value, plus (iv) the Consolidated Group’s Pro Rata Share of (A) Consolidated NOI attributable to Projects owned by Investment Affiliates (excluding Consolidated NOI attributable to Projects not owned for the entire four (4) fiscal quarters on which Consolidated NOI is calculated and provided that the contribution to Consolidated NOI on account of any Project shall not in any event be a negative number) divided by (B) the Capitalization Rate, plus (v) the Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of the price paid for such Projects first acquired by an Investment Affiliate during such four (4) fiscal quarters, plus (vi) Construction in Progress at book value, plus (vii) First Mortgage Receivables owned by the Consolidated Group (at the lower of book value or market value), plus (viii) Unimproved Land at book value.
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“Transferee” is defined in Section 12.4.
“Type” means, with respect to any Advance, its nature as either a Floating Rate Advance or LIBOR Rate Advance and as either a Revolving Advance or Term Advance.
“Unfunded Liabilities” means the amount (if any) by which the present value of all vested nonforfeitable benefits under all Single Employer Plans exceeds the fair market value of all such Plan assets allocable to such benefits, all determined as of the then most recent valuation date for such Plans.
“Unimproved Land” means, as of any date, any land which (i) is not appropriately zoned for retail development, (ii) does not have access to all necessary utilities or (iii) does not have access to publicly dedicated streets, unless such land has been designated in writing by the Borrower in a certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent as land that is reasonably expected to satisfy all such criteria within twelve (12) months after such date. For purposes of clarification, if any, such land shall be deemed to be included in Construction in Progress as of such date of designation and from and after such date shall not be considered Unimproved Land.
“Unmatured Default” means an event which but for the lapse of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a Default.
“Unsecured Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, all Indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money that does not constitute Secured Indebtedness or Guarantee Obligations.
“Unused Fee” is defined is Section 2.5.
“Unused Fee Percentage” means, with respect to any day during a calendar quarter, (i) 0.40% per annum, if the sum of the Revolving Advances and Facility Letter of Credit Obligations outstanding on such day is 50% or more of the aggregate Revolving Commitments or (ii) 0.50% per annum if the sum of the Revolving Advances and Facility Letter of Credit Obligations outstanding on such day is less than 50% of the aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” of a Person means (i) any Subsidiary all of the outstanding voting securities of which shall at the time be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person, or by such Person and one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person, or (ii) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or similar business organization 100% of the ownership interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or controlled.
The foregoing definitions shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
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2.1.
Generally
. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Lenders severally agree to make Advances through the Administrative Agent to the Borrower from time to time prior to the Facility Termination Date, and to support the issuance of Facility Letters of Credit under Article IIA of this Agreement, provided that the making of any such Advance or the issuance of such Facility Letter of Credit will not:
(i)
cause the then current Outstanding Facility Amount to exceed the then-current Aggregate Commitment; or
(ii)
cause the sum of (A) the then-current Outstanding Revolving Amount and (B) the then-current outstanding Swingline Advances to exceed the then-current aggregate Revolving Commitments;
(iii)
cause the aggregate amount of Term Advances to exceed the aggregate Term Commitments;
(iv)
cause the then-current outstanding Swingline Advances to exceed the Swingline Commitment; or
(v)
cause the then-outstanding Facility Letters of Credit Obligations to exceed the Facility Letter of Credit Sublimit; or
(vi)
cause the Collateral Pool Leverage Ratio to exceed (A) prior to the issuance of Borrower’s financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2012, sixty-five percent (65%) of the Collateral Pool Value and (B) at all times thereafter, sixty percent (60%) of the Collateral Pool Value; or
(vii)
cause the Collateral Pool Debt Service Coverage to be less than (A) prior to the issuance of Borrower’s financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2012, 1.50 to 1.00, and (B) at all times thereafter, 1.60 to 1.00.
The Advances may be Swingline Advances, ratable Floating Rate Advances or ratable LIBOR Rate Advances. Each Lender shall fund its Percentage of each such Advance (other than a Swingline Advance) and no Lender will be required to fund any amounts which, when aggregated with such Lender’s Percentage of all other Advances then outstanding and of all Facility Letter of Credit Obligations, would exceed such Lender’s then-current Commitment. This facility (“Facility”) is both a term loan and a revolving credit facility. There will be a single Term Advance made on the Agreement Effective Date when all conditions precedent thereto have been satisfied or waived. Such initial Term Advance shall fully satisfy the Lenders’ obligations under their Term Commitments and once repaid or prepaid the Term Loans may not be reborrowed. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, Borrower may request Revolving Advances hereunder from time to time, repay such Revolving Advances and reborrow Revolving Advances at any time prior to the Facility Termination Date. The Facility Termination Date can be extended at the Borrower’s request for one (1) extension period of one year upon
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written notice to the Administrative Agent received by the Administrative Agent not later than 90 days prior to the then-current Facility Termination Date (an “Extension Notice”), provided that (i) no Default or Unmatured Default has occurred and is continuing when the Extension Notice is given and on the day immediately preceding the first day of such extension period, (ii) all of the covenants of the Borrower hereunder are being complied with when an Extension Notice is given and on the day immediately preceding the first day of such extension period, and (iii) the Borrower pays, along with the Extension Notice, an extension fee to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender equal to two-fifths of one percent (0.40%) of the sum of (A) the then-current outstanding Term Loans of such Lender plus (B) the then-current Revolving Commitment of such Lender. In no event shall the Facility Termination Date be extended to a date later than February 3, 2014 without the consent of all of the Lenders.
2.2.
Ratable and Non Ratable Advances
. Each Advance hereunder shall consist of Loans made from the several Lenders ratably based on each Lender’s Percentage, except for Swingline Loans which shall be made by the Swingline Lender in accordance with Section 2.16. The ratable Advances may be Floating Rate Advances, LIBOR Rate Advances or a combination thereof, selected by the Borrower in accordance with Sections 2.8 and 2.9.
2.3.
Collateral
. The obligations of Borrower under the Loan Documents shall be secured by a perfected first priority security interest to be held by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders in the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, as described below. The Mortgages on the initial Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties (or amendments to Mortgages previously recorded pursuant to the Original Credit Agreement) shall be executed and delivered for recordation not later than the Agreement Effective Date. Borrower shall also provide to the Administrative Agent not later than the Agreement Effective Date with respect to each such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, an Appraisal approved by the Administrative Agent, a rent roll, ARGUS runs, leasing activity reports, tenant sales reports (if applicable), Leases, operating statements, an annual budget or cash flow projection, insurance certificates, lender’s title insurance policies (or date down endorsements to the lender’s title insurance policies previously delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Original Credit Agreement), surveys (which if no material changes to the improvements thereon have occurred, may be older surveys accompanied by an affidavit of no change from the Borrower), flood hazard determinations/flood insurance, subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreements and estoppel certificates (the “Required SNDAs and Estoppels”) from all tenants of Single Tenant Projects and from those tenants leasing 15,000 or more square feet of gross leaseable area in all other Projects in a form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (unless previously delivered pursuant to the Original Credit Agreement or waived by the Administrative Agent), environmental assessments satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, property condition reports satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, a written opinion of the Borrower’s counsel addressed to the Lenders in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent regarding each Mortgage (except those Mortgages delivered pursuant to the Original Credit Agreement with respect to which no opinion will be required at the Agreement Effective Date or at any time thereafter so long as the Administrative Agent previously received a satisfactory opinion that continues to benefit the Administrative Agent and Lenders under this Agreement) and such other due diligence materials as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably require for each
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Qualifying Collateral Pool Property (the “Required Diligence”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Borrower shall have the right to deliver any such Required SNDAs and Estoppels after the addition of the related Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, so long as any such Required SNDAs and Estoppels shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent (unless the requirement for delivery thereof has been waived by the Administrative Agent) by a date ninety (90) days after the addition of such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property to the Collateral Pool and, if such delivery or waiver has not occurred by such date, then such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property shall be excluded from the Collateral Pool until such delivery is made or waived by the Administrative Agent. Borrower shall pay for all Appraisals of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties required hereunder.
(a)
Subsequent Addition of Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties. If Borrower intends to propose the addition of a Project to the Collateral Pool, whether by acquisition of a new Project or by the retirement of existing Secured Indebtedness thereon or otherwise, then not less than fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the proposed effective date of such addition to the Collateral, Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent thereof in writing and thereafter provide the Administrative Agent with all Required Diligence with respect to such Project (other than items such as the Mortgage and the Lender’s title insurance policy, which can only be completed or executed once such Project is added to the Collateral Pool), together with a pro forma compliance certificate showing that the addition of such Project to the Collateral Pool will not cause any violations of the covenants hereunder, for distribution to the Lenders. The approval of the Majority Lenders shall be required for the inclusion of such Project in the Collateral Pool and the Administrative Agent shall promptly request such consent in writing from the Lenders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the inclusion of such Project requires a waiver of any of the qualification requirements set out in the definition of Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, such waiver shall require approval of the Required Lenders. Each of the Lenders shall have fifteen (15) Business Days after it receives such request and delivery of the applicable Required Diligence items to notify the Administrative Agent in writing whether it approves or objects to the proposed Qualifying Collateral Pool Property. The Administrative Agent shall notify Borrower in writing not later than twenty (20) Business Days after it has requested such approval from the Lenders if the Majority Lenders have approved the proposed Qualifying Collateral Pool Property. Once the Administrative Agent notifies Borrower that any Project has been approved to become a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, then, as a condition precedent to such Project actually becoming a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property and being included in the Collateral Pool, Borrower shall (i) cause the applicable Subsidiary owning such Project to execute and deliver a Joinder Agreement with respect to the Subsidiary Guaranty, if such Subsidiary has not already executed a Subsidiary Guaranty, (ii) cause the remaining items of Required Diligence, including the related Mortgage, to be delivered, executed and recorded, and (iii) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders a written confirmation that, as of the date such additional Qualifying Collateral Pool Property is included in the Collateral Pool, all of the representations and warranties contained in Section 5.23 hereof are true and correct in all material respects with respect to such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property as if it were
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one of the initial Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties (collectively, the “Collateral Inclusion Conditions”).
(b)
Sale, Financing or Contribution of a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property. Provided no Default or Unmatured Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would exist immediately after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.3(b)), and provided Borrower continues to be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 6.21 (iv)-(vi), Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary may sell a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, create a new Lien securing Indebtedness on a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property or contribute a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property to a joint venture or other entity not wholly-owned by the Consolidated Group (for purposes of this Section, such a sale, creation of a new Lien or contribution shall be referred to as a “Qualifying Collateral Pool Release”) upon the following terms and conditions:
(i)
Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent written notice of the desire to consummate such Qualifying Collateral Pool Release on or before the date that is ten (10) Business Days prior to the date on which the Qualifying Collateral Pool Release is to be effected;
(ii)
Such Qualifying Collateral Pool Release shall require the prior written consent of the Majority Lenders if it involves a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property which contributes $15,000,000 or more to the then-current Collateral Pool Value, provided that no such consent from the Majority Lenders shall be required if such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property is either a Single Tenant Property or the Qualifying Collateral Pool Property commonly known as Southpark Xxxxxxx II.
(iii)
Not later than five (5) Business Days prior to the date the Qualifying Collateral Pool Release is to be effected, Borrower shall submit to the Administrative Agent a certificate, which shall be subject to the Administrative Agent’s review and reasonable approval, setting forth the projected Collateral Pool Leverage Ratio and Collateral Pool Debt Service Coverage on a pro forma basis as of the planned effective date of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Release giving effect to: (A) the Qualifying Collateral Pool Release and (B) any other Projects that will become a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property prior to the date of such Qualifying Collateral Pool Release (the “Pro Forma Calculations”); and
(iv)
If the Pro Forma Calculations show that Borrower will be out of compliance with the covenants contained in Sections 6.21(iv)-(vi) or with any other provisions related to the Collateral Pool, Borrower shall, before the effective date of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Release, either (A) have caused an additional Qualifying Collateral Pool Property to be admitted to the Collateral Pool in accordance with Section 2.3(a) that causes Borrower to be in compliance with the covenants contained in Sections 6.21(iv)-(vi) and with all other provisions related to the Collateral Pool, or (B) pay down the Outstanding Facility
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Amount sufficiently to permit the Borrower to be in compliance with such covenants and provisions.
Upon the occurrence of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Release, the underlying Project shall no longer be a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, and the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders shall release the Mortgage thereon and execute such other documents or instruments and take all other actions necessary or advisable on behalf of the Lenders to release any related security interests evidenced by the Security Documents.
2.4.
Final Principal Payment
. Any outstanding Advances and all other unpaid Obligations shall be paid in full by the Borrower on the Facility Termination Date.
2.5.
Unused Fee
. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender an unused facility fee (the “Unused Fee”) equal to an aggregate amount computed on a daily basis by multiplying (i) the Unused Fee Percentage applicable to such day, expressed as a per diem rate, times (ii) the excess of the Revolving Commitment over the Outstanding Revolving Amount on such day. The Unused Fee shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the first Business Day of each calendar quarter (for the prior calendar quarter) and upon any termination of the Revolving Commitment in its entirety.
2.6.
Other Fees
. The Borrower agrees to pay all fees payable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Borrower’s letter agreement with the Administrative Agent dated as of November 17, 2010 (the “Fee Letter”).
2.7.
Minimum Amount of Each Advance
. Each Advance shall be in the minimum amount of $1,000,000; provided, however, that any Floating Rate Advance may be in the amount of the unused aggregate Revolving Commitments.
2.8.
Principal Payments
.
(a)
Optional. The Borrower may from time to time pay, without penalty or premium, all or any part of outstanding Floating Rate Advances without prior notice to the Administrative Agent. A LIBOR Rate Advance may be paid on the last day of the applicable Interest Period or, if and only if the Borrower pays any amounts due to the Lenders under Sections 3.4 and 3.5 as a result of such prepayment, on a day prior to such last day. Unless otherwise directed by the Borrower by written notice to the Administrative Agent, all principal payments made when no Default has occurred and is continuing shall first be applied to repay all outstanding Revolving Advances and then to repay the Term Advances. If a Default has occurred and is continuing such principal payment shall be applied on a pro rata basis to all outstanding Advances.
(b)
Mandatory. Mandatory partial principal payments shall be due from time to time if, (i) due to any reduction in the Collateral Pool Value or in the Adjusted Collateral Pool NOI, whether by a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property failing to continue to satisfy the requirement for qualification as a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property or by a reduction in the Collateral Pool Value or the Adjusted Collateral Pool NOI attributable to any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, including without limitation any reduction in
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the Appraised Value of any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, the Outstanding Facility Amount shall be in excess of the maximum amount permitted to be outstanding under clauses (iv) or (v) of Section 6.21 or (ii) without limiting the effect of any other provision of this Agreement requiring such a principal payment, any of the categories of the Obligations described in clauses (i) -(iii) of Section 2.1 shall be in excess of the maximum amount set forth in the applicable clause. Such principal payments shall be in the amount needed to restore Borrower to compliance with such covenants or such maximum amount. Such mandatory principal payments shall be due and payable (i) in the case of any such reduction arising from results reported in a quarterly financial statement of Borrower and related compliance certificate, ten (10) Business Days after delivery of such quarterly financial statement and compliance certificate under Section 6.1 evidencing such reduction or (ii) in all other cases, ten (10) Business Days after Borrower’s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent of any such failure to continue to qualify as a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property or any such reduction in the amount contributed to the Adjusted Collateral Pool NOI or Collateral Pool Value or of any such excess over the applicable maximum amount.
2.9.
Method of Selecting Types and Interest Periods for New Advances
. The Borrower shall select the Type of Advance and, in the case of each LIBOR Rate Advance, the LIBOR Interest Period applicable to each Advance from time to time. The Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (a “Borrowing Notice”) in the form attached as Exhibit G and made a part hereof (i) not later than 1:00 p.m. Cleveland, Ohio time on the Business Day immediately preceding the Borrowing Date of each Floating Rate Advance, (ii) not later than 10:00 a.m. Cleveland, Ohio time, at least three (3) Business Days before the Borrowing Date for each LIBOR Rate Advance and (iii) not later than 10:00 a.m. Cleveland, Ohio time on the same day as the Borrowing Date for each Swingline Advance, which shall specify:
(i)
the Borrowing Date, which shall be a Business Day, of such Advance,
(ii)
the aggregate amount of such Advance,
(iii)
the Type of Advance selected,
(iv)
if such Advance is a Swingline Advance, and Borrower desires to have the One Day LIBOR Rate apply for the duration of such Swingline Advance, a request to that effect; and
(v)
in the case of each LIBOR Rate Advance, the LIBOR Interest Period applicable thereto.
The Administrative Agent shall provide a copy to the Lenders by facsimile of each Borrowing Notice and each Conversion/Continuation Notice not later than the close of business on the Business Day it is received. Each Lender shall make available its Loan or Loans, in funds immediately available in Cleveland, Ohio to the Administrative Agent at its address
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specified pursuant to Article XIII on each Borrowing Date not later than noon (Cleveland, Ohio time). The Administrative Agent will make the funds so received from the Lenders available to the Borrower at the Administrative Agent’s aforesaid address.
No LIBOR Interest Period may end after the Facility Termination Date and, unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree in writing, in no event may there be more than seven (7) different LIBOR Interest Periods for LIBOR Rate Advances outstanding at any one time.
2.10.
Conversion and Continuation of Outstanding Advances
. Floating Rate Advances shall continue as Floating Rate Advances unless and until such Floating Rate Advances are converted into LIBOR Rate Advances. Each LIBOR Rate Advance shall continue as a LIBOR Rate Advance until the end of the then applicable Interest Period therefore, at which time such LIBOR Rate Advance shall be automatically converted into a Floating Rate Advance unless the Borrower shall have given the Administrative Agent a “Conversion/Continuation Notice” requesting that, at the end of such Interest Period, such LIBOR Rate Advance either continue as a LIBOR Rate Advance for the same or another Interest Period or be converted to an Advance of another Type. Subject to the terms of Section 2.7, the Borrower may elect from time to time to convert all or any part of an Advance of any Type into any other Type or Types of Advances; provided that any conversion of any LIBOR Rate Advance shall be made on, and only on, the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto. The Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (a “Conversion/Continuation Notice”) of each conversion of an Advance to a LIBOR Rate Advance or continuation of a LIBOR Rate Advance not later than 10:00 a.m. (Cleveland, Ohio time), at least three Business Days, in the case of a conversion into or continuation of a LIBOR Advance, prior to the date of the requested conversion or continuation, specifying:
(i)
the requested date which shall be a Business Day, of such conversion or continuation;
(ii)
the aggregate amount and Type of the Advance which is to be converted or continued; and
(iii)
the amount and Type(s) of Advance(s) into which such Advance is to be converted or continued and, in the case of a conversion into or continuation of a LIBOR Rate Advance, the duration of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
2.11.
Changes in Interest Rate, Etc.
Each Floating Rate Advance shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof, for each day from and including the date such Advance is made or is converted from a LIBOR Rate Advance into a Floating Rate Advance pursuant to Section 2.10 to but excluding the date it becomes due or is converted into a LIBOR Rate Advance pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof, at a rate per annum equal to the Floating Rate for such day. Changes in the rate of interest on that portion of any Advance maintained as a Floating Rate Advance will take effect simultaneously with each change in the Alternate Base Rate. Each LIBOR Rate Advance shall bear interest from and including the first day of the Interest Period applicable thereto to (but not including) the last day of such Interest Period at the interest rate determined as applicable to such LIBOR Rate Advance.
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2.12.
Rates Applicable After Default
. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 2.9 or 2.10, during the continuance of a Default or Unmatured Default the Required Lenders may, at their option, by notice to the Borrower (which notice may be revoked at the option of the Required Lenders notwithstanding any provision of Section 8.2 requiring unanimous consent of the Lenders to changes in interest rates), declare that no Advance may be made as, converted into or continued as a LIBOR Rate Advance. During the continuance of a Default the Required Lenders may, at their option, by notice to the Borrower (which notice may be revoked at the option of the Required Lenders notwithstanding any provision of Section 8.2 requiring unanimous consent of the Lenders to changes in interest rates), declare that (i) each LIBOR Rate Advance shall bear interest for the remainder of the applicable Interest Period at the rate otherwise applicable to such Interest Period plus 2% per annum and (ii) each Floating Rate Advance shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Floating Rate otherwise applicable to the Floating Rate Advance plus 2% per annum; provided, however, that the Default Rate shall become applicable automatically if a Default occurs under Section 7.1 or 7.2, unless waived by the Required Lenders.
2.13.
Method of Payment
.
(i)
All payments of the Obligations hereunder shall be made, without setoff, deduction, or counterclaim, in immediately available United States funds to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders at the Administrative Agent’s address specified pursuant to Article XIII, or at any other Lending Installation of the Administrative Agent specified in writing by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, by noon (Cleveland time) on the date when due and shall be applied ratably by the Administrative Agent among the Lenders.
(ii)
As provided elsewhere herein, all Lenders’ interests in the Advances and the Loan Documents shall be ratable undivided interests and none of such Lenders’ interests shall have priority over the others. Each payment delivered to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Lender or amount to be applied or paid by the Administrative Agent to any Lender shall be paid promptly (on the same day as received by the Administrative Agent if received prior to noon (Cleveland time) on such day and otherwise on the next Business Day) by the Administrative Agent to such Lender in the same type of funds that the Administrative Agent received at such Lender’s address specified pursuant to Article XIII or at any Lending Installation specified in a notice received by the Administrative Agent from such Lender. Payments received by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders but not timely funded to the Lenders shall bear interest payable by the Administrative Agent at the Federal Funds Effective Rate from the date due until the date paid. The Administrative Agent is hereby authorized to charge the account of the Borrower maintained with KeyBank for each payment of principal, interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder.
2.14.
Notes; Telephonic Notices
. Each Lender is hereby authorized to record the principal amount of each of its Loans and each repayment on the schedule attached to its Note,
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provided, however, that the failure to so record shall not affect the Borrower’s obligations under such Note. The Borrower hereby authorizes the Lenders and the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders to extend, convert or continue Advances, effect selections of Types of Advances and to transfer funds based on telephonic notices made by any Authorized Officer. The Borrower agrees to deliver promptly to the Administrative Agent a written confirmation, if such confirmation is requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, of each telephonic notice signed by an Authorized Officer. If the written confirmation differs in any material respect from the action taken by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, the records of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall govern absent manifest error. The Administrative Agent will at the request of the Borrower, from time to time, but not more often than monthly, provide notice of the amount of the outstanding Aggregate Commitment, the Type of Advance, and the applicable interest rate, if for a LIBOR Rate Advance. Upon a Lender’s furnishing to Borrower an affidavit to such effect, if a Note is mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, Borrower shall deliver to such Lender, in substitution therefore, a new note containing the same terms and conditions as such Note being replaced.
2.15.
Interest Payment Dates; Interest and Fee Basis
. Interest accrued on each Advance shall be payable on each Payment Date, commencing with the first such date to occur after the date hereof, at maturity, whether by acceleration or otherwise, and upon any termination of the Revolving Commitment in its entirety under Section 2.22 hereof. Interest, Unused Fees, Facility Letter of Credit Fees and all other fees shall be calculated for actual days elapsed on the basis of a 360-day year. Interest shall be payable for the day an Advance is made but not for the day of any payment on the amount paid if payment is received prior to noon (Cleveland time) at the place of payment. If any payment of principal of or interest on an Advance shall become due on a day which is not a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of a principal payment, such extension of time shall be included in computing interest in connection with such payment.
2.16.
Swingline Advances
. In addition to the other options available to the Borrower hereunder, the Swingline Commitment shall be available for Swingline Advances subject to the following terms and conditions. Swingline Advances shall be made available for same day borrowings provided that notice is given in accordance with Section 2.9 hereof. All Swingline Advances shall bear interest at either the Floating Rate or, if Borrower has given written notice to the Administrative Agent as described in Section 2.9 when requesting such Swingline Advance, at the One Day LIBOR Rate, as it may be adjusted over the duration of such Swingline Advance. In no event shall the Swingline Lender be required to fund a Swingline Advance if it would increase the total aggregate outstanding Loans by Swingline Lender hereunder plus its Percentage of Facility Letter of Credit Obligations to an amount in excess of the Swingline Lender’s Revolving Commitment. No Swingline Advance may be made to repay a Swingline Advance, but Borrower may repay Swingline Advances from subsequent pro rata Advances hereunder. On the fifth (5th) Business Day after such a Swingline Advance was made, if such Swingline Advance has not been repaid by the Borrower, each Lender irrevocably agrees to purchase its Percentage of any Swingline Advance made by the Swingline Lender regardless of whether the conditions for disbursement are satisfied at the time of such purchase, including the existence of an Unmatured Default or Default hereunder provided that
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Swingline Lender did not have actual knowledge of such Unmatured Default or Default at the time the Swingline Advance was made and provided further that no Lender shall be required to have total outstanding Revolving Loans plus its Percentage of Facility Letters of Credit exceed its Revolving Commitment. Such purchase shall take place on the date of the request by Swingline Lender so long as such request is made by noon (Cleveland time), and otherwise on the Business Day following such request. All requests for purchase shall be in writing. From and after the date it is so purchased, each such Swingline Advance shall, to the extent purchased, (i) be treated as a Revolving Loan made by the purchasing Lenders and not by the selling Lender for all purposes under this Agreement and the payment of the purchase price by a Lender shall be deemed to be the making of a Revolving Loan by such Lender and shall constitute outstanding principal under such Lender’s Note, and (ii) shall no longer be considered a Swingline Advance except that all interest accruing on or attributable to such Swingline Advance for the period prior to the date of such purchase shall be paid when due by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Swingline Lender and all such amounts accruing on or attributable to such Revolving Loans for the period from and after the date of such purchase shall be paid when due by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the purchasing Lenders. If prior to purchasing its Percentage of a Swingline Advance one of the events described in Section 7.7 shall have occurred and such event prevents the consummation of the purchase contemplated by preceding provisions, each Lender will purchase an undivided participating interest in the outstanding Swingline Advance in an amount equal to its Percentage of such Swingline Advance. From and after the date of each Lender’s purchase of its participating interest in a Swingline Advance, if the Swingline Lender receives any payment on account thereof, the Swingline Lender will distribute to such Lender its participating interest in such amount (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s participating interest was outstanding and funded); provided, however, that in the event that such payment was received by the Swingline Lender and is required to be returned to the Borrower, each Lender will return to the Swingline Lender any portion thereof previously distributed by the Swingline Lender to it. If any Lender fails to so purchase its Percentage of any Swingline Advance, such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender hereunder.
2.17.
Notification of Advances, Interest Rates and Prepayments
. The Administrative Agent will notify each Lender of the contents of each Borrowing Notice, Conversion/Continuation Notice, and repayment notice received by it hereunder not later than the close of business on the Business Day such notice is received by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent will notify each Lender of the interest rate applicable to each LIBOR Rate Advance promptly upon determination of such interest rate and will give each Lender prompt notice of each change in the Alternate Base Rate.
2.18.
Lending Installations
. Each Lender may book its Loans at any Lending Installation selected by such Lender and may change its Lending Installation from time to time. All terms of this Agreement shall apply to any such Lending Installation and the Notes shall be deemed held by each Lender for the benefit of such Lending Installation. Each Lender may, by written or telex notice to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, designate a Lending
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Installation through which Loans will be made by it and for whose account Loan payments are to be made.
2.19.
Non-Receipt of Funds by the Administrative Agent
. Unless the Borrower or a Lender, as the case may be, notifies the Administrative Agent prior to the time at which it is scheduled to make payment to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders of (i) in the case of a Lender, the proceeds of a Loan or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, a payment of principal, interest or fees to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders, that it does not intend to make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such payment has been made. The Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make the amount of such payment available to the intended recipient in reliance upon such assumption. If such Lender or the Borrower, as the case may be, has not in fact made such payment to the Administrative Agent, the recipient of such payment shall, on demand by the Administrative Agent, repay to the Administrative Agent the amount so made available together with interest thereon in respect of each day during the period commencing on the date such amount was so made available by the Administrative Agent until the date the Administrative Agent recovers such amount at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of payment by a Lender, the Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day or (ii) in the case of payment by the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to the relevant Loan. If such Lender so repays such amount and interest thereon to the Administrative Agent within one Business Day after such demand, all interest accruing on the Loan not funded by such Lender during such period shall be payable to such Lender when received from the Borrower.
2.20.
Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances
. The Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Lender which (a) is not capable of receiving payments without any deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax pursuant to Section 3.5, or (b) cannot maintain its LIBOR Rate Loans at a suitable Lending Installation pursuant to Section 3.3 or (c) either voted against or failed to respond to any written request made by the Administrative Agent seeking approval of any amendment to or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, if at least the Majority Lenders voted in favor of such proposed amendment or waiver or (d) is a Defaulting Lender; with a replacement bank or other financial institution with a replacement bank or other financial institution, provided that (i) such replacement does not conflict with any applicable legal or regulatory requirements affecting the Lenders, (ii) no Default or (after notice thereof to Borrower) no Unmatured Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such replacement, (iii) the Borrower shall repay (or the replacement bank or institution shall purchase, at par) all Loans and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender prior to the date of replacement, (iv) the Borrower shall be liable to such replaced Lender under Sections 3.4 and 3.6 if any LIBOR Rate Loan owing to such replaced Lender shall be prepaid (or purchased) other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto, (v) the replacement bank or institution, if not already a Lender, and the terms and conditions of such replacement, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (vi) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.3 (provided that the Borrower shall be obligated to pay the processing fee referred to therein), (vii) until such time as such replacement shall be consummated, the Borrower shall pay all additional amounts (if any) required pursuant to Section 3.5 and (viii) any such replacement
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shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any rights which the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender shall have against the replaced Lender.
2.21.
Usury
. This Agreement and each Note are subject to the express condition that at no time shall Borrower be obligated or required to pay interest on the principal balance of the Loan at a rate which could subject any Lender to either civil or criminal liability as a result of being in excess of the Maximum Legal Rate. If by the terms of this Agreement or the Loan Documents, Borrower is at any time required or obligated to pay interest on the principal balance due hereunder at a rate in excess of the Maximum Legal Rate, the interest rate or the Default Rate, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be immediately reduced to the Maximum Legal Rate and all previous payments in excess of the Maximum Legal Rate shall be deemed to have been payments in reduction of principal and not on account of the interest due hereunder. All sums paid or agreed to be paid to Lender for the use, forbearance, or detention of the sums due under the Loan, shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be amortized, prorated, allocated, and spread throughout the full stated term of the Loan until payment in full so that the rate or amount of interest on account of the Loan does not exceed the Maximum Legal Rate of interest from time to time in effect and applicable to the Loan for so long as the Loan is outstanding.
2.22.
Termination or Increase in Revolving Commitment
. Borrower shall have the right, upon at least three (3) business days notice, to terminate or cancel, in whole or in part, the unused portion of the Revolving Commitments in excess of the Outstanding Revolving Amount, provided that each partial reduction shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000 or any whole multiple of $250,000 in excess thereof. Any partial termination of the Revolving Commitments shall be applied to reduce the Lender’s Revolving Commitments on a pro rata basis. Once terminated or reduced, the Revolving Commitments may not be reinstated or increased thereafter. Provided Borrower has not exercised any right to terminate or reduce the Revolving Commitments, Borrower shall also have the right from time to time, provided no Default or Unmatured Default has occurred and is then continuing, to increase the aggregate Revolving Commitments by up to $65,000,000 up to a maximum of $500,000,000 by either adding new lenders as Lenders (subject to the Administrative Agent’s prior written approval of the identity of such new lenders) or obtaining the agreement, which shall be at such Lender’s or Lenders’ sole discretion, of one or more of the then current Lenders to increase its or their Revolving Commitments. In no event will any existing Lender be obligated to provide any portion of any such increase in the Revolving Commitments unless such Lender shall specifically agree in writing to provide an increase in its Revolving Commitment at such time. On the effective date of any such increase, Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent any amounts due to it under the Fee Letter and to each new lender or then-current Lender providing such additional Revolving Commitment the up-front fee agreed to between Borrower and such party. Such increases shall be evidenced by the execution and delivery of an Amendment Regarding Increase in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto by Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the new lender or existing Lender providing such additional Revolving Commitment, a copy of which shall be forwarded to each Lender by the Administrative Agent promptly after execution thereof. In addition, the Mortgages shall be amended to reflect such increase and the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute a consent to such increase ratifying and continuing their obligations
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under the Subsidiary Guaranty. On the effective date of each such increase in the aggregate Revolving Commitments, Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall cause the new or existing Lenders providing such increase to hold its or their Percentage of all Revolving Advances outstanding at the close of business on such day, by funding more than its or their Percentage of new Revolving Advances made on such date or by purchasing shares of outstanding Revolving Loans held by the other Lenders or by a combination thereof. The Lenders agree to cooperate in any required sale and purchase of outstanding Revolving Advances to achieve such result. In no event shall the aggregate Revolving Commitments exceed $500,000,000 without the approval of all of the Lenders.
ARTICLE IIA
LETTER OF CREDIT SUBFACILITY
2A.1
Obligation to Issue
. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the representations and warranties of the Borrower herein set forth, the Issuing Bank hereby agrees to issue for the account of the Borrower, one or more Facility Letters of Credit in accordance with this Article IIA, from time to time during the period commencing on the Agreement Effective Date and ending on a date sixty (60) days prior to the Facility Termination Date.
2A.2
Types and Amounts
. The Issuing Bank shall not have any obligation to:
(i)
issue any Facility Letter of Credit if the aggregate maximum amount then available for drawing under Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, after giving effect to the Facility Letter of Credit requested hereunder, shall exceed any limit imposed by law or regulation upon such Issuing Bank;
(ii)
issue any Facility Letter of Credit if, after giving effect thereto, (1) the then applicable Outstanding Facility Amount would exceed the then current Aggregate Commitment or (2) the then-applicable Outstanding Revolving Amount would exceed the then-current aggregate Revolving Commitments or (3) the Facility Letter of Credit Obligations would exceed the Facility Letter of Credit Sublimit; or
(iii)
issue any Facility Letter of Credit having an expiration date, or containing automatic extension provisions to extend such date, to a date beyond the sixtieth (60th) day prior to the Facility Termination Date, provided that, if Borrower then has an unexpired option to extend the Facility Termination Date under Section 2.1, Borrower may request an expiration date during such extension so long as Borrower specifically acknowledges that it shall deposit the full undrawn amount of any such Facility Letter of Credit into the Letter of Credit Collateral Account on or before the then-current Facility Termination Date, if any such extension is not exercised or is not exercisable.
2A.3
Conditions
. In addition to being subject to the satisfaction of the conditions contained in Article IV hereof and in the balance of this Article IIA, the obligation of the Issuing
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Bank to issue any Facility Letter of Credit is subject to the satisfaction in full of the following conditions:
(i)
the Borrower shall have delivered to the Issuing Bank at such times and in such manner as the Issuing Bank may reasonably prescribe such documents and materials as may be reasonably required pursuant to the terms of the proposed Facility Letter of Credit (it being understood that if any inconsistency exists between such documents and the Loan Documents, the terms of the Loan Documents shall control) and the proposed Facility Letter of Credit shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Bank as to form and content;
(ii)
as of the date of issuance, no order, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority shall purport by its terms to enjoin or restrain the Issuing Bank from issuing the requested Facility Letter of Credit and no law, rule or regulation applicable to the Issuing Bank and no request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any governmental authority with jurisdiction over the Issuing Bank shall prohibit or request that the Issuing Bank refrain from the issuance of Letters of Credit generally or the issuance of the requested Facility Letter or Credit in particular; and
(iii)
there shall not exist any Default or Unmatured Default.
2A.4
Procedure for Issuance of Facility Letters of Credit
.
(a)
Borrower shall give the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent at least three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice of any requested issuance of a Facility Letter of Credit under this Agreement (a “Letter of Credit Request”), such notice shall be irrevocable, except as provided in Section 2A.4(b)(i) below, and shall specify:
(i)
the stated amount of the Facility Letter of Credit requested (which stated amount shall not be less than $50,000);
(ii)
the effective date (which day shall be a Business Day) of issuance of such requested Facility Letter of Credit (the “Issuance Date”);
(iii)
the date on which such requested Facility Letter of Credit is to expire (which day shall be a Business Day which is not less than sixty (60) days prior to the Facility Termination Date);
(iv)
the purpose for which such Facility Letter of Credit is to be issued;
(v)
the Person for whose benefit the requested Facility Letter of Credit is to be issued; and
(vi)
any special language required to be included in the Facility Letter of Credit.
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At the time such request is made, the Borrower shall also provide the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank with a copy of the form of the Facility Letter of Credit that the Borrower is requesting be issued and shall execute and deliver the Issuing Bank’s customary letter of credit application and reimbursement agreement with respect thereto. Such notice, to be effective, must be received by such Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent not later than noon (Cleveland time) on the last Business Day on which notice can be given under this Section 2A.4(a). Administrative Agent shall, promptly upon request by a Lender, provide a copy of such Letter of Credit Request to such Lender.
(b)
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Article IIA and provided that the applicable conditions set forth in Article IV hereof have been satisfied, the Issuing Bank shall, on the Issuance Date, issue a Facility Letter of Credit on behalf of the Borrower in accordance with the Letter of Credit Request and the Issuing Bank’s usual and customary business practices unless the Issuing Bank has actually received (i) written notice from the Borrower specifically revoking the Letter of Credit Request with respect to such Facility Letter of Credit given not later than the Business Day immediately preceding the Issuance Date, or (ii) written or telephonic notice from the Administrative Agent stating that the issuance of such Facility Letter of Credit would violate Section 2A.2.
(c)
The Issuing Bank shall give the Administrative Agent (who shall promptly notify Lenders) and the Borrower written or telex notice, or telephonic notice confirmed promptly thereafter in writing, of the issuance of a Facility Letter of Credit (the “Issuance Notice”).
(d)
The Issuing Bank shall not extend or amend any Facility Letter of Credit unless the requirements of this Section 2A.4 are met as though a new Facility Letter of Credit was being requested and issued.
2A.5
Reimbursement Obligations; Duties of Issuing Bank
.
(a)
The Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (who shall promptly notify Lenders) of any draw under a Facility Letter of Credit. Any such draw shall not be deemed to be a default hereunder but shall constitute a Revolving Advance of the Facility in the amount of the Reimbursement Obligation with respect to such Facility Letter of Credit and shall bear interest from the date of the relevant drawing(s) under the pertinent Facility Letter of Credit at the Floating Rate Advance; provided that if a Default or an Unmatured Default exists at the time of any such drawing(s), then the Borrower shall reimburse the Issuing Bank for drawings under a Facility Letter of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank no later than the next succeeding Business Day after the payment by the Issuing Bank and until repaid such Reimbursement Obligation shall bear interest at the Default Rate.
(b)
Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Facility Letter of Credit, if taken or omitted in the absence of willful misconduct or gross negligence, shall not put the Issuing Bank under any resulting liability to any Lender or, provided that such Issuing Bank has complied with the procedures specified in Section 2A.4, relieve any Lender of its obligations hereunder to the Issuing Bank. In determining whether to pay under any Facility Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank shall have no obligation
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relative to the Lenders other than to confirm that any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered in compliance, and that they appear to comply on their face, with the requirements of such Letter of Credit.
2A.6
Participation
.
(a)
Immediately upon issuance by the Issuing Bank of any Facility Letter of Credit in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IIA, each Lender shall be deemed to have irrevocably and unconditionally purchased and received from the Issuing Bank, without recourse, representation or warranty, an undivided interest and participation equal to such Lender’s Percentage in such Facility Letter of Credit (including, without limitation, all obligations of the Borrower with respect thereto) and all related rights hereunder. Each Lender’s obligation to make further Loans to Borrower (other than any payments such Lender is required to make under subparagraph (b) below) or to purchase an interest from the Issuing Bank in any subsequent Facility Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank on behalf of Borrower shall be reduced by such Lender’s Percentage of the undrawn portion of each Facility Letter of Credit outstanding.
(b)
In the event that the Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Facility Letter of Credit and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount to the Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2A.7 hereof, the Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, which shall promptly notify each Lender of such failure, and each Lender shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Bank the amount of such Lender’s Percentage of the unreimbursed amount of such payment, and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay such amount to the Issuing Bank. Lender’s payments of its Percentage of such Reimbursement Obligation as aforesaid shall be deemed to be a Revolving Loan by such Lender and shall constitute outstanding principal under such Lender’s Note. The failure of any Lender to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Bank its Percentage of the unreimbursed amount of any such payment shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Percentage of the unreimbursed amount of any payment on the date such payment is to be made, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make available to the Administrative Agent its Percentage of the unreimbursed amount of any payment on the date such payment is to be made. Any Lender which fails to make any payment required pursuant to this Section A.6(b) shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender hereunder.
(c)
Whenever the Issuing Bank receives a payment on account of a Reimbursement Obligation, including any interest thereon, the Issuing Bank shall promptly pay to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall promptly (on the same day as received by the Administrative Agent if received prior to noon (Cleveland time) on such day and otherwise on the next Business Day) pay to each Lender which has funded its participating interest therein, in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such Lender’s Percentage thereof.
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(d)
Upon the request of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, the Issuing Bank shall furnish to such Administrative Agent or Lender copies of any Facility Letter of Credit to which the Issuing Bank is party and such other documentation as may reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent or Lender.
(e)
The obligations of a Lender to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Bank with respect to a Facility Letter of Credit shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, not subject to any counterclaim, set off, qualification or exception whatsoever other than a failure of any such Issuing Bank to comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to the issuance of such Facility Letter of Credit, and such payments shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances.
2A.7
Payment of Reimbursement Obligations
.
(a)
The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Bank the amount of all Advances for Reimbursement Obligations, interest and other amounts payable to the Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Facility Letter of Credit when due, irrespective of any claim, set off, defense or other right which the Borrower may have at any time against any Issuing Bank or any other Person, under all circumstances, including without limitation any of the following circumstances:
(i)
any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents;
(ii)
the existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right which the Borrower may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Facility Letter of Credit or any transferee of any Facility Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, any Lender, or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Facility Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transactions between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any Facility Letter of Credit);
(iii)
any draft, certificate or any other document presented under the Facility Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect of any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv)
the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Loan Documents; or
(v)
the occurrence of any Default or Unmatured Default.
(b)
In the event any payment by the Borrower received by the Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent with respect to a Facility Letter of Credit and distributed by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders on account of their participations is thereafter set aside, avoided or recovered from the Administrative Agent or Issuing Bank in connection with any
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receivership, liquidation, reorganization or bankruptcy proceeding, each Lender which received such distribution shall, upon demand by the Administrative Agent, contribute such Lender’s Percentage of the amount set aside, avoided or recovered together with interest at the rate required to be paid by the Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent upon the amount required to be repaid by the Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent.
2A.8
Compensation for Facility Letters of Credit
.
(c)
The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of the Lenders (including the Issuing Bank), based upon the Lenders’ respective Percentages, a per annum fee (the “Facility Letter of Credit Fee”) as a percentage of the face amount of each Facility Letter of Credit outstanding equal to the LIBOR Applicable Margin in effect from time to time hereunder while such Facility Letter of Credit is outstanding. The Facility Letter of Credit Fee relating to any Facility Letter of Credit shall accrue on a daily basis and shall be due and payable in arrears on the first Business Day of each calendar quarter following the issuance of such Facility Letter of Credit and, to the extent any such fees are then due and unpaid, on the Facility Termination Date or any other earlier date that the Obligations are due and payable in full. The Administrative Agent shall promptly (on the same day as received by the Administrative Agent if received prior to noon (Cleveland time) on such day and otherwise on the next Business Day) remit such Facility Letter of Credit Fees, when paid, to the other Lenders in accordance with their Percentages thereof. The Borrower shall not have any liability to any Lender for the failure of the Administrative Agent to promptly deliver funds to any such Lender and shall be deemed to have made all such payments on the date the respective payment is made by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, provided such payment is received by the time specified in Section 2.13 hereof.
(d)
The Issuing Bank also shall have the right to receive solely for its own account an issuance fee equal to the greater of (A) $1,500 or (B) one eighth of one percent (0.125%) per annum to be calculated on the face amount of each Facility Letter of Credit for the stated duration thereof, based on the actual number of days and using a 360-day year basis. The issuance fee shall be payable by the Borrower on the Issuance Date for each such Facility Letter of Credit and on the date of any increase therein or extension thereof. The Issuing Bank shall also be entitled to receive its reasonable out of pocket costs and the Issuing Bank’s standard charges of issuing, amending and servicing Facility Letters of Credit and processing draws thereunder.
2A.9
Letter of Credit Collateral Account
. The Borrower hereby agrees that it will immediately upon the request of the Administrative Agent or prior to the Facility Termination Date if a Facility Letter of Credit is outstanding and unexpired on such date as provided in Section 2A.2(iii) above, establish a special collateral account (the “Letter of Credit Collateral Account”) at the Administrative Agent’s office at the address specified pursuant to Article XIII, in the name of the Borrower but under the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, and in which the Borrower shall have no interest other than as set forth in Section 8.1. The Letter of Credit Collateral Account shall hold the deposits the Borrower is required to make upon the Facility Termination Date related to any outstanding and unexpired Facility Letter of Credit or after a Default on account of any outstanding Facility Letters of Credit
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as described in Section 8.1. In addition to the foregoing, the Borrower hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a security interest in and to the Letter of Credit Collateral Account and any funds that may hereafter be on deposit in such account, including income earned thereon. The Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Borrower has no obligation to fund the Letter of Credit Collateral Account unless and until so required under Section 2A.2(iii) or Section 8.1 hereof.
ARTICLE III.
CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES
3.1.
Yield Protection
. If, on or after the date of this Agreement, the adoption of any law or any governmental or quasi-governmental rule, regulation, policy, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law), or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental or quasi-governmental authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender or applicable Lending Installation with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency:
(i)
subjects any Lender or any applicable Lending Installation to any Taxes, or changes the basis of taxation of payments (other than with respect to Excluded Taxes) to any Lender in respect of its LIBOR Rate Loans, or
(ii)
imposes or increases or deems applicable any reserve, assessment, insurance charge, special deposit or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender or any applicable Lending Installation (other than reserves and assessments taken into account in determining the interest rate applicable to LIBOR Rate Advances), or
(iii)
imposes any other condition the result of which is to increase the cost to any Lender or any applicable Lending Installation of making, funding or maintaining its LIBOR Rate Loans, or reduces any amount receivable by any Lender or any applicable Lending Installation in connection with its LIBOR Rate Loans, or requires any Lender or any applicable Lending Installation to make any payment calculated by reference to the amount of LIBOR Rate Loans, by an amount deemed material by such Lender as the case may be,
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender or applicable Lending Installation, as the case may be, of making or maintaining its LIBOR Rate Loans or Revolving Commitment or to reduce the return received by such Lender or applicable Lending Installation in connection with such LIBOR Rate Loans or Revolving Commitment, then, within 15 days of a demand by such Lender accompanied by reasonable evidence of the occurrence of the applicable event under clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above, the Borrower shall pay such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction in amount received.
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3.2.
Changes in Capital Adequacy Regulations
. If a Lender in good faith determines the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by such Lender, any Lending Installation of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender is increased as a result of a Change (as hereinafter defined), then, within 15 days of demand by such Lender, the Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount necessary to compensate for any shortfall in the rate of return on the portion of such increased capital which such Lender in good faith determines is attributable to this Agreement, its outstanding credit exposure hereunder or its obligation to make Loans hereunder (after taking into account such Lender’s policies as to capital adequacy). “Change” means (i) any change after the date of this Agreement in the Risk Based Capital Guidelines (as hereinafter defined) or (ii) any adoption of or change in any other law, governmental or quasi governmental rule, regulation, policy, guideline, interpretation, or directive (whether or not having the force of law) after the date of this Agreement which affects the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by any Lender or any Lending Installation or any corporation controlling any Lender. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines and directives promulgated thereunder shall be deemed to be a “Change” under this Section 3.2 and shall qualify as a change under Section 3.1 above, regardless of the date enacted or adopted. “Risk-Based Capital Guidelines” means (i) the risk-based capital guidelines in effect in the United States on the date of this Agreement, including transition rules, and (ii) the corresponding capital regulations promulgated by regulatory authorities outside the United States implementing the June 2006 report of the Basel Committee on Banking Regulation and Supervisory Practices Entitled “Basel II: International Convergence of Capital Measurements and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework,” including transition rules, and any amendments to such regulations adopted prior to the date of this Agreement.
3.3.
Availability of Types of Advances
. If any Lender in good faith determines that maintenance of any of its LIBOR Rate Loans at a suitable Lending Installation would violate any applicable law, rule, regulation or directive, whether or not having the force of law, the Administrative Agent shall, with written notice to Borrower, suspend the availability of LIBOR Rate Advances and require any LIBOR Rate Advances to be repaid; or if the Required Lenders in good faith determine that (i) deposits of a type or maturity appropriate to match fund LIBOR Rate Advances are not available, the Administrative Agent shall, with written notice to Borrower, suspend the availability of LIBOR Rate Advances with respect to any LIBOR Rate Advances made after the date of any such determination, or (ii) an interest rate applicable to a LIBOR Rate Advance does not accurately reflect the cost of making such a LIBOR Rate Advance, then, if for any reason whatsoever the provisions of Section 3.1 are inapplicable, the Administrative Agent shall, with written notice to Borrower, suspend the availability of any LIBOR Rate Advances made after the date of any such determination. If the Borrower is required to so repay a LIBOR Rate Advance, the Borrower may concurrently with such repayment borrow from the Lenders, in the amount of such repayment, a Loan bearing interest at the Floating Rate.
3.4.
Funding Indemnification
. If any payment of a LIBOR Rate Advance occurs on a date which is not the last day of the applicable Interest Period, whether because of acceleration, prepayment or otherwise, or a LIBOR Rate Advance is not made on the date specified by the Borrower for any reason other than default by the Lenders or as a result of unavailability
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pursuant to Section 3.3, the Borrower will indemnify each Lender for any loss or cost incurred by it resulting therefrom, including, without limitation, any loss or cost (incurred or expected to be incurred) in liquidating or employing deposits acquired to fund or maintain the LIBOR Rate Advance and shall pay all such losses or costs within fifteen (15) days after written demand therefor.
3.5.
Taxes
.
(i)
All payments by the Borrower to or for the account of any Lender or the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders hereunder or under any Note shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any and all Taxes. If the Borrower shall be required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder to any Lender or the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders, (a) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.5) such Lender or the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (b) the Borrower shall make such deductions, (c) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant authority in accordance with applicable law and (d) the Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent the original copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof within 30 days after such payment is made.
(ii)
In addition, the Borrower hereby agrees to pay any present or future stamp or documentary taxes and any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies which arise from any payment made hereunder or under any Note or from the execution or delivery of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any Note (“Other Taxes”).
(iii)
The Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender for the full amount of Taxes or Other Taxes (including, without limitation, any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed on amounts payable under this Section 3.5) paid by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders or such Lender and any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto. Payments due under this indemnification shall be made within 30 days of the date the Administrative Agent or such Lender makes demand therefore pursuant to Section 3.6.
(iv)
Each Lender that is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or a state thereof (each a “Non-U.S. Lender”) agrees that it will, not more than ten Business Days after the date it becomes a party to this Agreement, (i) deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two duly completed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI, certifying in either case that such Lender is entitled to receive payments under this Agreement without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes, and (ii) deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative
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Agent a United States Internal Revenue Form W-8 or W-9, as the case may be, and certify that it is entitled to an exemption from United States backup withholding tax. Each Non-U.S. Lender further undertakes to deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (x) renewals or additional copies of such form (or any successor form) on or before the date that such form expires or becomes obsolete, and (y) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent forms so delivered by it, such additional forms or amendments thereto as may be reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent. All forms or amendments described in the preceding sentence shall certify that such Lender is entitled to receive payments under this Agreement without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes, unless an event (including without limitation any change in treaty, law or regulation) has occurred prior to the date on which any such delivery would otherwise be required which renders all such forms inapplicable or which would prevent such Lender from duly completing and delivering any such form or amendment with respect to it and such Lender advises the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it is not capable of receiving payments without any deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax.
(v)
For any period during which a Non-U.S. Lender has failed to provide the Borrower with an appropriate form pursuant to clause (iv), above (unless such failure is due to a change in treaty, law or regulation, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority, occurring subsequent to the date on which a form originally was required to be provided), such Non-U.S. Lender shall not be entitled to indemnification under this Section 3.5 with respect to Taxes imposed by the United States.
(vi)
Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to payments under this Agreement or any Note pursuant to the law of any relevant jurisdiction or any treaty shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate following receipt of such documentation.
(vii)
If the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or any other governmental authority of the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof asserts a claim that the Administrative Agent did not properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender (because the appropriate form was not delivered or properly completed, because such Lender failed to notify the Administrative Agent of a change in circumstances which rendered its exemption from withholding ineffective, or for any other reason), such Lender shall indemnify the Administrative Agent fully for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by the Administrative Agent as tax, withholding therefor, or otherwise, including penalties and interest, and including taxes imposed by any jurisdiction
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on amounts payable to the Administrative Agent under this subsection, together with all costs and expenses related thereto (including attorneys fees and time charges of attorneys for the Administrative Agent, which attorneys may be employees of the Administrative Agent). The obligations of the Lenders under this Section 3.5(vii) shall survive the payment of the Obligations and termination of this Agreement and any such Lender obligated to indemnify the Administrative Agent shall not be entitled to indemnification from the Borrower with respect to such amounts, whether pursuant to this Article or otherwise, except to the extent the Borrower participated in the actions giving rise to such liability.
3.6.
Lender Statements; Survival of Indemnity
. To the extent reasonably possible, each Lender shall designate an alternate Lending Installation with respect to its LIBOR Rate Loans to reduce any liability of the Borrower to such Lender under Sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.5 or to avoid the unavailability of LIBOR Rate Advances under Section 3.3, so long as such designation is not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, disadvantageous to such Lender. Each Lender shall deliver a written statement of such Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) as to the amount due, if any, under Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 or 3.5. Such written statement shall set forth in reasonable detail the calculations upon which such Lender determined such amount and shall be final, conclusive and binding on the Borrower in the absence of manifest error. Determination of amounts payable under such Sections in connection with a LIBOR Rate Loan shall be calculated as though each Lender funded its LIBOR Rate Loan through the purchase of a deposit of the type and maturity corresponding to the deposit used as a reference in determining the LIBOR Rate applicable to such Loan, whether in fact that is the case or not. Unless otherwise provided herein, the amount specified in the written statement of any Lender shall be payable on demand after receipt by the Borrower of such written statement. The obligations of the Borrower under Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.5 shall survive payment of the Obligations and termination of this Agreement.
ARTICLE IV.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
4.1.
Initial Advance
. The Lenders shall not be required to make the initial Advance hereunder or issue the initial Facility Letter of Credit hereunder, unless (a) the Borrower shall, prior to or concurrently with such initial Advance or issuance, have paid all fees due and payable to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent hereunder, and (b) the Borrower shall have furnished to the Administrative Agent, the following:
(a)
The duly executed originals of the Loan Documents, including the Notes payable to the order of each of the Lenders, this Agreement, the Disclosure Letter, the Subsidiary Guaranty and the Mortgages;
(b)
(i) Certificates of good standing for the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor, from the State of Maryland for the Borrower and the states of organization of each Subsidiary Guarantor, certified by the appropriate governmental officer and dated not more than sixty (60) days prior to the Agreement Effective Date, and (ii) foreign qualification certificates for each Subsidiary Guarantor owning a Qualifying Collateral
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Pool Property, certified by the appropriate governmental officer and dated not more than sixty (60) days prior to the Agreement Effective Date, for the jurisdiction in which such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property is located;
(c)
Copies of the formation documents (including code of regulations, if appropriate) of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, certified by an officer of the Borrower or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as appropriate, together with all amendments thereto;
(d)
Incumbency certificates, executed by officers of the Borrower or the Subsidiary Guarantors, which shall identify by name and title and bear the signature of the Persons authorized to sign the Loan Documents and to make borrowings hereunder on behalf of the Borrower, upon which certificate the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely until informed of any change in writing by the Borrower or any such Subsidiary Guarantor;
(e)
Copies, certified by a Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor, of the Board of Directors’ resolutions authorizing the Advances provided for herein, with respect to the Borrower, and the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to be executed and delivered by the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder;
(f)
A written opinion of the Borrower’s counsel, addressed to the Lenders in substantially the form of Exhibit F hereto or such other form as the Administrative Agent may reasonably approve;
(g)
A certificate, signed by an officer of the Borrower, stating that on the initial Borrowing Date (i) no Default or Unmatured Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) all representations and warranties of the Borrower are true and correct, (iii) neither Borrower nor any Subsidiary Guarantor has suffered any material adverse changes, and (iv) except as specifically as disclosed in the Disclosure Letter, no action, suit, investigation or proceeding, pending or threatened, exists in any court or before any arbitrator or governmental authority that purports to materially and adversely affect the Borrower, Guarantors or subsidiary or any transaction contemplated hereby, or that could have a material adverse effect on the Borrower, Subsidiary Guarantors or subsidiary or any transaction contemplated hereby or on the ability of the Borrower, Subsidiary Guarantors or subsidiary of either one to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents, provided that such certificate is in fact true and correct;
(h)
The most recent financial statements of the Borrower;
(i)
UCC financing statement searches with respect to the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor from its state of organization;
(j)
Written money transfer instructions addressed to the Administrative Agent and signed by an Authorized Officer, together with such other related money transfer authorizations as the Administrative Agent may have reasonably requested;
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(k)
Evidence that all upfront fees due to each of the Lenders under the terms of their respective commitment letters have been paid, or will be paid out of the proceeds of the initial Advance hereunder;
(l)
A pro forma compliance certificate pursuant to Section 6.1(v), (and provided for clarification purposes that Borrower shall have no obligation to deliver a compliance certificate under the terms of the Original Credit Agreement with respect to the quarter ended December 31, 2010, but that if such pro forma compliance certificate does not reflect Borrower’s actual financial results reported for the period ending December 31, 2010, Borrower shall be obligated to issue another compliance certificate under the terms of this Agreement for such period when such actual results are reported);
(m)
The Required Diligence with respect to all Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties (other than the Required SNDAs and Estoppels, but including the opinions of local counsel with respect to the Mortgages);
(n)
Evidence in the form of an escrow and related undertakings from a title insurance company satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that all Indebtedness encumbering the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties immediately prior to the Agreement Effective Date shall be repaid in full from the proceeds of the initial Advance hereunder.
(o)
Evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of payment in full of all amounts due to any lenders under the Original Credit Agreement which are not continuing as Lenders hereunder; and
(p)
Such other documents as any Lender or its counsel may have reasonably requested, the form and substance of which documents shall be reasonably acceptable to the parties and their respective counsel.
Upon satisfaction of the foregoing conditions precedent and the funding of the initial Advance, the Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver to Borrower a release of any security interests created pursuant to the “Collateral Assignments” or the “Account Pledge Agreement” (as such terms are defined in the Original Credit Agreement) and terminations of any related UCC financing statements.
4.2.
Each Advance and Issuance
. The Lenders shall not be required to make any Advance or issue any Facility Letter of Credit unless on the applicable Borrowing Date:
(i)
There exists no Default or Unmatured Default;
(ii)
The representations and warranties contained in Article V are true and correct as of such Borrowing Date with respect to Borrower, except to the extent any such representation or warranty is stated to relate solely to an earlier date, in which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct on and as of such earlier date; and
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(iii)
All documents incident to the making of such Advance or issuance of such Facility Letter of Credit shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.
Each Borrowing Notice and each Letter of Credit Request with respect to each such Advance shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that the conditions contained in Sections 4.2(i) and (ii) have been satisfied. Any Lender may require a duly completed Compliance Certificate in substantially the same form of the Certificate attached as Exhibit D.
ARTICLE V.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that:
5.1.
Existence
. The Borrower is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Maryland. The Borrower has its principal place of business in Oak Brook, Illinois and is duly qualified as a foreign entity, properly licensed (if required), in good standing and has all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted, except where the failure to be so qualified, licensed and in good standing and to have the requisite authority would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Each of Borrower’s Subsidiaries is duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and has all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted.
5.2.
Authorization and Validity
. The Borrower has the corporate power and authority and legal right to execute and deliver the Loan Documents and to perform its obligations thereunder. The execution and delivery by the Borrower of the Loan Documents and the performance of its obligations thereunder have been duly authorized by proper corporate proceedings, and the Loan Documents constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Borrower enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally.
5.3.
No Conflict; Government Consent
. Neither the execution and delivery by the Borrower of the Loan Documents, nor the consummation of the transactions therein contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions thereof will violate any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or award binding on the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s articles of incorporation, by-laws, articles of organization, articles of formation, certificates of trust, limited partnership certificates, operating agreements, trust agreements, or limited partnership agreements, or the provisions of any indenture, instrument or agreement to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or is subject, or by which it, or its Property, is bound, or conflict with or constitute a default thereunder, except where such violation, conflict or default would not have a Material Adverse Effect, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien in, of or on the Property of the Borrower or a Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, instrument or agreement. No
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order, consent, approval, license, authorization, or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with, or exemption by, any governmental or public body or authority, or any subdivision thereof, is required to authorize, or is required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of, or the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of, any of the Loan Documents other than the filing of a copy of this Agreement.
5.4.
Financial Statements; Material Adverse Effect
. All consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries heretofore or hereafter delivered to the Lenders were prepared in accordance with GAAP in effect on the preparation date of such statements and fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial condition and operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such date and the consolidated results of their operations for the period then ended, subject, in the case of interim financial statements, to normal and customary year-end adjustments. From the preparation date of the most recent financial statements delivered to the Lenders through the Agreement Effective Date, there was no change in the business, properties, or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.5.
Taxes
. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have filed all United States federal tax returns and all other tax returns which are required to be filed and have paid all taxes due pursuant to said returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries except such taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have been provided. No tax liens have been filed and no claims are being asserted with respect to such taxes. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in respect of any taxes or other governmental charges are adequate.
5.6.
Litigation and Guarantee Obligations
. Except as set forth in the Disclosure Letter or as set forth in written notice to the Administrative Agent from time to time, there is no litigation, arbitration, governmental investigation, proceeding or inquiry pending or, to the knowledge of any of their officers, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower has no material contingent obligations not provided for or disclosed in the financial statements referred to in Section 6.1 or as set forth in written notices to the Administrative Agent given from time to time after the Agreement Effective Date on or about the date such material contingent obligations are incurred.
5.7.
Subsidiaries
. All of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of any Subsidiaries that are corporations have been duly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable.
5.8.
ERISA
. The Unfunded Liabilities of all Single Employer Plans do not in the aggregate exceed $1,000,000. Neither Borrower nor any other member of the Controlled Group has incurred, or is reasonably expected to incur, any withdrawal liability to Multiemployer Plans in excess of $250,000 in the aggregate. Each Plan complies in all material respects with all applicable requirements of law and regulations, no Reportable Event has occurred with respect to any Plan, neither Borrower nor any other members of the Controlled Group has withdrawn
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from any Plan or initiated steps to do so, and no steps have been taken to reorganize or terminate any Plan.
5.9.
Accuracy of Information
. No information, exhibit or report furnished by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender in connection with the negotiation of, or compliance with, the Loan Documents contained any material misstatement of fact or omitted to state a material fact or any fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading.
5.10.
Regulation U
. The Borrower has not used the proceeds of any Advance to buy or carry any margin stock (as defined in Regulation U) in violation of the terms of this Agreement.
5.11.
Material Agreements
. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is a party to any agreement or instrument or subject to any charter or other corporate restriction which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither Borrower nor any Subsidiary is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or conditions contained in (i) any agreement to which it is a party, which default could have a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) any agreement or instrument evidencing or governing Indebtedness, which default would constitute a Default hereunder.
5.12.
Compliance With Laws
. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have complied with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, orders and restrictions of any domestic or foreign government or any instrumentality or agency thereof, having jurisdiction over the conduct of their respective businesses or the ownership of their respective Property, except for any non-compliance which would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither Borrower nor any Subsidiary has received any written notice to the effect that their operations are not in material compliance with any of the requirements of applicable federal, state and local environmental, health and safety statutes and regulations or the subject of any federal or state investigation evaluating whether any remedial action is needed to respond to a release of any toxic or hazardous waste or substance into the environment, which non-compliance or remedial action could have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.13.
Ownership of Properties
. On the date of this Agreement, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries will have good and marketable title, free of all Liens other than those permitted by Section 6.16, to all of the Property and assets reflected in the financial statements as owned by it, other than those assets represented by mortgage receivables that are required to be consolidated despite the fact that title to the mortgaged assets is not in the Borrower of any of its Subsidiaries.
5.14.
Investment Company Act
. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
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5.15.
Public Utility Holding Company Act
. Intentionally Omitted.
5.16.
Solvency
.
(i)
Immediately after the Agreement Effective Date and immediately following the making of each Loan and after giving effect to the application of the proceeds of such Loans, (a) the fair value of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, at a fair valuation, will exceed the debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; (b) the present fair saleable value of the Property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis on their debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured; (c) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will be able to pay their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured; and (d) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged as such businesses are now conducted and are proposed to be conducted after the date hereof.
(ii)
The Borrower does not intend to, or to permit any of its Subsidiaries to, and does not believe that it or any of its Subsidiaries will, incur debts beyond their ability to pay such debts as they mature, taking into account the timing of and amounts of cash to be received by it or any such Subsidiary and the timing of the amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its Indebtedness or the Indebtedness of any such Subsidiary.
5.17.
Insurance
The Borrower and its Subsidiaries carry insurance on their Projects, including the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, in such amounts, with such deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar Projects in localities where the Borrower and its Subsidiaries operate, including, without limitation:
(i)
Property and casualty insurance (including coverage for flood and other water damage for any Project located within a 100-year flood plain) in the amount of the replacement cost of the improvements at the Projects (to the extent replacement cost insurance is maintained by companies engaged in similar business and owning similar properties);
(ii)
Builder’s risk insurance for any Project under construction in the amount of the construction cost of such Project;
(iii)
Loss of rental income insurance in the amount not less than one year’s gross revenues from the Projects; and
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(iv)
Comprehensive general liability or umbrella insurance in the amount of $20,000,000 per occurrence.
5.18.
Borrower Status
. The Borrower is qualified as a real estate investment trust under Section 856 of the Code and currently is in compliance in all material respects with all provisions of the Code applicable to the qualification of the Borrower as a real estate investment trust.
5.19.
Environmental Matters
. Each of the following representations and warranties is true and correct on and as of the Agreement Effective Date except as disclosed in the Disclosure Letter and to the extent that the facts and circumstances giving rise to any such failure to be so true and correct, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:
(a)
To the knowledge of the Borrower, the Projects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries do not contain any Materials of Environmental Concern in amounts or concentrations which constitute a violation of, or could reasonably give rise to liability of the Borrower or any Subsidiary under, Environmental Laws.
(b)
To the knowledge of the Borrower, (i) the Projects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and all operations at the Projects are in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, and (ii) with respect to all Projects owned by the Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries (x) for at least two (2) years, have in the last two years, or (y) for less than two (2) years, have for such period of ownership, been in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws.
(c)
Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice of violation, alleged violation, non-compliance, liability or potential liability regarding environmental matters or compliance with Environmental Laws with regard to any of the Projects, nor does the Borrower have knowledge or reason to believe that any such notice will be received or is being threatened.
(d)
To the knowledge of the Borrower, Materials of Environmental Concern have not been transported or disposed of from the Projects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in violation of, or in a manner or to a location which could reasonably give rise to liability of the Borrower or any Subsidiary under, Environmental Laws, nor have any Materials of Environmental Concern been generated, treated, stored or disposed of at, on or under any of the Projects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in violation of, or in a manner that could give rise to liability of the Borrower or any Subsidiary under, any applicable Environmental Laws.
(e)
No judicial proceedings or governmental or administrative action is pending, or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, under any Environmental Law to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, will be named as a party with respect to the Projects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, nor are there any consent decrees or other decrees, consent orders,
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administrative order or other orders, or other administrative of judicial requirements outstanding under any Environmental Law with respect to the Projects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
(f)
To the knowledge of the Borrower, there has been no release or threat of release of Materials of Environmental Concern at or from the Projects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, or arising from or related to the operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with the Projects in violation of or in amounts or in a manner that could give rise to liability under Environmental Laws.
5.20.
OFAC Representation
. The Borrower is not, and shall not be at any time, a person with whom the Lenders are restricted from doing business under the regulations of the Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) of the Department of Treasury of the United States of America (including, those Persons named on OFAC’s Specially Designated and Blocked Persons list) or under any statute, executive order (including, the September 24, 2001 Executive Order Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism), or other governmental action and is not and shall not engage in any dealings or transactions or otherwise be associated with such persons. In addition, the Borrower hereby agrees to provide to the Administrative Agent any information that the Administrative Agent deems necessary from time to time in order to ensure compliance with all applicable Laws concerning money laundering and similar activities.
5.21.
Intellectual Property
.
(i)
Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries owns or has the right to use, under valid license agreements or otherwise, all material patents, licenses, franchises, trademarks, trademark rights, trade names, trade name rights, trade secrets and copyrights (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) used in the conduct of their respective businesses as now conducted and as contemplated by the Loan Documents, without known conflict with any patent, license, franchise, trademark, trade secret, trade name, copyright, or other proprietary right of any other Person.
(ii)
Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries have taken all such steps as they deem reasonably necessary to protect their respective rights under and with respect to such Intellectual Property.
(iii)
No claim has been asserted by any Person with respect to the use of any Intellectual Property by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or challenging or questioning the validity or effectiveness of any Intellectual Property.
(iv)
The use of such Intellectual Property by Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries does not infringe on the rights of any Person, subject to such claims and infringements as do not, in the aggregate, give rise to any liabilities on the part of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that could be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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5.22.
Broker’s Fees
. No broker’s or finder’s fee, commission or similar compensation will be payable with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby. Except as provided in the Fee Letter, no other similar fees or commissions will be payable by any Lender for any other services rendered to the Borrower, any of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower or any other Person ancillary to the transactions contemplated hereby.
5.23.
Initial Collateral Properties
. As of the Agreement Effective Date, Schedule 1 is a correct and complete list of all Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties.
(a)
Each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties is not located in an area that has been identified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as an area having special flood hazards and in which flood insurance has been made available under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 or the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended, or any successor law, or, if located within any such area, the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor has obtained and will maintain through the Facility Termination Date the insurance prescribed in Section 5.17 hereof.
(b)
To the Borrower’s knowledge, each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties and the present use and occupancy thereof are in material compliance with all material zoning ordinances (without reliance upon adjoining or other properties), building codes, land use and Environmental Laws, and other similar laws (“Applicable Laws”).
(c)
Each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties is served by all utilities required for the current or contemplated use thereof. Each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties has accepted or is equipped to accept such utility service.
(d)
All public roads and streets necessary for service of and access to each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties for the current or contemplated use thereof have been completed, and are open for use by the public, or appropriate insured private easements are in place.
(e)
Borrower is not aware of any material latent or patent structural or other significant deficiency of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties. Each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties is free of damage and waste that would materially and adversely affect the value of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, is in good repair and to Borrower’s knowledge there is no deferred maintenance other than ordinary wear and tear. Each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties is free from damage caused by fire or other casualty.
(f)
To Borrower’s knowledge, all liquid and solid waste disposal, septic and sewer systems located on the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties are in a good and safe condition and repair and to Borrower’s knowledge, in material compliance with all Applicable Laws with respect to such systems.
(g)
All improvements on the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties lie within the boundaries and building restrictions of the legal description of record of Qualifying
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Collateral Pool Properties, no improvements encroach upon easements benefiting the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties other than encroachments that do not materially adversely affect the use or occupancy of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties and no improvements on adjoining properties encroach upon the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties or easements benefiting the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties other than encroachments that do not materially adversely affect the use or occupancy of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties.
(h)
All Leases are in full force and effect. Neither Borrower nor any Subsidiary Guarantor is in material default under any Lease at a Qualifying Collateral Pool Property which demises more than five percent (5%) of the total gross leaseable or net rentable area of the related Project, and Borrower has disclosed to the Administrative Agent in writing any material default, by any other party of which Borrower has knowledge, under any such Lease.
(i)
There are no material delinquent taxes, ground rents, water charges, sewer rents, assessments, insurance premiums, leasehold payments, or other outstanding charges affecting the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties except to the extent such items are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have been provided, except that certain income tax returns of Borrower, Parent or any Subsidiary thereof may be on extension. Each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties is taxed separately without regard to any other property not included in the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties and for all purposes each of the various contiguous components of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties.
(j)
No condemnation proceeding or eminent domain action is pending or threatened against any of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties which would impair the use, sale or occupancy of such Qualifying Collateral Pool Property (or any portion thereof) in any material manner.
(k)
Each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties is not, nor is any direct or indirect interest of the Borrower or any Subsidiary therein, subject to any Lien other than Permitted Liens set forth in clauses (i) through (iv) of Section 6.16 or to any Negative Pledge (other than the Liens and Negative Pledges created pursuant to this Agreement to secure the obligations of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors).
5.24.
No Bankruptcy Filing
. Neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is contemplating either the filing of a petition by it under any state or federal bankruptcy or insolvency laws or the liquidation of its assets or property, and Borrower has no knowledge of any Person contemplating the filing of any such petition against any of such Persons.
5.25.
No Fraudulent Intent
. Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents nor the performance of any actions required hereunder or thereunder is being undertaken by Borrower or the Subsidiary Guarantors with or as a result of any actual intent by any of such Persons to hinder, delay or defraud any entity to which any of such Persons is now or will hereafter become indebted.
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5.26.
Transaction in Best Interests of Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantors; Consideration
. The transaction evidenced by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents is in the best interests of Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors and their respective creditors. The direct and indirect benefits to inure to Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute substantially more than “reasonably equivalent value” (as such term is used in §548 of the Bankruptcy Code) and “valuable consideration,” “fair value,” and “fair consideration” (as such terms are used in any applicable state fraudulent conveyance law), in exchange for the benefits to be provided by Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and but for the willingness of each Subsidiary Guarantor to guaranty the Obligations, Borrower would be unable to obtain the financing contemplated hereunder which financing will enable Borrower and its subsidiaries to have available financing to conduct and expand their business. Borrower and its Subsidiaries constitute a single integrated financial enterprise and receives a benefit from the availability of credit under this Agreement.
5.27.
Subordination
. Borrower is not a party to or bound by any agreement, instrument or indenture that may require the subordination in right or time of payment of any of the Obligations to any other indebtedness or obligation of any such Persons.
5.28.
Tax Shelter Representation
. Borrower does not intend to treat the Loans, and/or related transactions as being a “reportable transaction” (within the meaning of United States Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4). In the event Borrower determines to take any action inconsistent with such intention, it will promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof. If Borrower so notifies the Administrative Agent, Borrower acknowledges that one or more of the Lenders may treat its Loans as part of a transaction that is subject to Treasury Regulation Section 301.6112-1, and such Lender or Lenders, as applicable, will maintain the lists and other records required by such Treasury Regulation.
5.29.
Anti-Terrorism Laws
.
(i)
None of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates is in violation of any laws or regulations relating to terrorism or money laundering (“Anti-Terrorism Laws”), including Executive Order No. 13224 on Terrorist Financing, effective September 24, 2001 (the “Executive Order”) and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56.
(ii)
None of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates, or any of its brokers or other agents acting or benefiting from the Facility is a Prohibited Person. A “Prohibited Person” is any of the following:
(1)
a person or entity that is listed in the Annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, the Executive Order;
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(2)
a person or entity owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, any person or entity that is listed in the Annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, the Executive Order;
(3)
a person or entity with whom any Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law;
(4)
a person or entity who commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports “terrorism” as defined in the Executive Order; or
(5)
a person or entity that is named as a “specially designated national and blocked person” on the most current list published by the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control at its official website or any replacement website or other replacement official publication of such list.
(iii)
None of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates or any of its brokers or other agents acting in any capacity in connection with the Facility (1) conducts any business or engages in making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Prohibited Person, (2) deals in, or otherwise engages in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to the Executive Order, or (iii) engages in or conspires to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in any Anti-Terrorism Law.
Borrower shall not (1) conduct any business or engage in making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Prohibited Person, (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to the Executive Order or any other Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) engage in or conspire to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in any Anti-Terrorism Law (and Borrower shall deliver to Administrative Agent any certification or other evidence requested from time to time by Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, confirming Borrower’s compliance herewith).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time that Borrower retains its status as a publicly held company, the representations made in this Section 5.29 are limited to the Borrower’s knowledge with respect to Affiliates who are Affiliates due to ownership due to 10% or more of any class of voting securities.
5.30.
Survival
. All statements contained in any certificate, financial statement or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to the Administrative Agent or any Lender pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents (including, but not limited to, any such statement made in or in connection with any
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amendment hereto or thereto or any statement contained in any certificate, financial statement or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower prior to the Agreement Effective Date and delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with closing the transactions contemplated hereby) shall constitute representations and warranties made by the Borrower under this Agreement. All such representations and warranties under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents shall survive the effectiveness of this Agreement and such Loan Documents, the execution and delivery of any additional Loan Documents and the making of further Loans and the issuance of further Facility Letters of Credit.
During the term of this Agreement, unless the Required Lenders shall otherwise consent in writing:
6.1.
Financial Reporting
. The Borrower will maintain for the Consolidated Group a system of accounting established and administered in accordance with GAAP, and furnish to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders:
(i)
As soon as available, but in any event not later than 45 days after the close of each fiscal quarter, for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP, including an unaudited consolidated balance sheet as of the close of each such period and the related unaudited consolidated income statement and statement of cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such period, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, if any, all certified by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower;
(ii)
As soon as available, but in any event not later than 45 days after the close of each fiscal quarter, for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, the following reports in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, all certified by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower:
(1)
a schedule listing all Projects and summary information for each Project, including location, square footage, occupancy, Net Operating Income, debt, and such additional information on all Projects as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent,
(2)
rent rolls and operating statements for each of the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, together with a description of any then-existing defaults by a tenant under a Major Lease (as such term is defined in the form of the Mortgage attached as Exhibit I) at any such Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, and the Adjusted Collateral Pool NOI and occupancy percentage thereof as of the end of the prior fiscal quarter, and
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(3)
such information as is reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to determine compliance with the covenants contained in Sections 6.21(iv)- (vi) of this Agreement;
(iii)
As soon as available, but in any event not later than 90 days after the close of each fiscal year, for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, audited financial statements, including a consolidated balance sheet as at the end of such year and the related consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and of cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception, or qualification arising out of the scope of the audit, prepared by independent certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent, and indicating no material weakness in Borrower’s internal controls, together with such additional information and consolidating schedules as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent;
(iv)
As soon as available, but in any event not later than 90 days after the close of each fiscal year for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, a statement detailing the contributions to Consolidated NOI from each individual Project for the prior fiscal year in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certified by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower;
(v)
Together with the quarterly and annual financial statements required hereunder, a compliance certificate in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto signed by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower showing the calculations and computations necessary to determine compliance with this Agreement and stating that, to such officer’s knowledge, no Default or Unmatured Default exists, or if, to such officer’s knowledge, any Default or Unmatured Default exists, stating the nature and status thereof;
(vi)
As soon as possible and in any event within 10 days after a responsible officer of the Borrower knows that any Reportable Event has occurred with respect to any Plan, a statement, signed by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower, describing said Reportable Event and the action which the Borrower proposes to take with respect thereto;
(vii)
As soon as possible and in any event within 10 days after receipt by a responsible officer of the Borrower, a copy of (a) any notice or claim to the effect that the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is or may be liable to any Person as a result of the release by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries, or any other Person of any toxic or hazardous waste or substance into the environment, and (b) any notice alleging any violation of any federal, state or local environmental, health or safety law or regulation by such Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, which, in either case, could have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(viii)
Promptly upon the furnishing thereof to the shareholders of the Borrower, copies of all financial statements, reports and proxy statements so furnished, including without limitation all form 10-K and 10-Q reports filed with the SEC; and
(ix)
Such other information (including, without limitation, financial statements for the Borrower and non-financial information) as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.
6.2.
Use of Proceeds
.
(a)
The Borrower will use the proceeds of the Advances solely (i) to finance the cost of the Borrower’s or its Subsidiaries’ acquisition, development and redevelopment of Projects, and related tenant improvements, capital expenditures, leasing commissions, (ii) for bridge debt financing, and (iii) for working capital (but in all circumstances excluding the repurchase of any common shares of the Borrower), including without limitation payment of “earn-outs,” other payments Borrower or any Subsidiary is contractually obligated to make as a result of any prior acquisitions of Projects, contractually obligated payments for redemptions of membership interests under limited liability company operating agreements, and margin payments with respect to Marketable Securities.
(b)
Without limitation of the foregoing, the Borrower will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, use any of the proceeds of the Advances (i) to purchase or carry any “margin stock” (as defined in Regulation U) if such usage could constitute a violation of Regulation U by any Lender, (ii) to fund any purchase of, or offer for, any Capital Stock of any Person, unless such Person has consented to such offer prior to any public announcements relating thereto, or (iii) to make any Acquisition other than a Permitted Acquisition.
6.3.
Notice of Default
. The Borrower will give, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to give, prompt notice in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders of the occurrence of any Default or Unmatured Default and of any other development, financial or otherwise (including the filing of material litigation), which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.4.
Conduct of Business
. The Borrower will do, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to do, all things necessary to remain duly incorporated or duly qualified, validly existing and in good standing as a real estate investment trust, corporation, general partnership, limited partnership, or limited liability company, as the case may be, in its jurisdiction of incorporation/formation (except with respect to mergers permitted pursuant to Section 6.12 and Permitted Acquisitions) and maintain all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted and to carry on and conduct its businesses in substantially the same manner as they are presently conducted where the failure to do so could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and, specifically, neither the Borrower nor its Subsidiaries may undertake any business other than the acquisition,
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development, ownership, management, operation and leasing of Projects, and any business activities and investments incidental thereto, including investments in Marketable Securities, subject to the limitations on Permitted Investments and Permitted Acquisitions established hereunder.
6.5.
Taxes
. Subject to any more stringent requirements contained in the Mortgages with respect to the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, the Borrower will pay, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay, when due all taxes, assessments and governmental charges and levies upon them or their income, profits or Projects, except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside.
6.6.
Insurance
. Subject to any more stringent requirements contained in the Mortgages with respect to the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, the Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain insurance which is consistent with the representation contained in Section 5.17 on all their Property and the Borrower will furnish to any Lender upon reasonable request full information as to the insurance carried.
6.7.
Compliance with Laws
. Subject to any more stringent requirements contained in the Mortgages with respect to the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, the Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws, rules, regulations, orders, writs, judgments, injunctions, decrees or awards to which they may be subject, the violation of which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.8.
Maintenance of Properties
. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, do all things necessary to maintain, preserve, protect and keep their respective Projects and Properties, reasonably necessary for the continuous operation of the Projects, in good repair, working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
6.9.
Inspection
. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit the Lenders upon reasonable notice, by their respective representatives and agents, to inspect any of the Projects, corporate books and financial records of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries, to examine and make copies of the books of accounts and other financial records of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries, and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries with officers thereof, and to be advised as to the same by, their respective officers at such reasonable times and intervals as the Lenders may designate.
6.10.
Maintenance of Status
. The Borrower shall at all times maintain its status as a real estate investment trust in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Code relating to such status.
6.11.
Dividends
. Borrower may (i) make any distributions in redemption of any Capital Stock of the Borrower and (ii) make or declare any dividends or similar distributions with respect to its common Capital Stock so long as the Dividend Payout Ratio of the Borrower shall not exceed 95%, provided that during the continuation of any Default under the Loan Documents,
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Borrower shall only be permitted to make or declare such dividends or distributions after obtaining the written consent of the Administrative Agent and Required Lenders. The Borrower shall, on a quarterly basis, deliver to the Administrative Agent evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of the application of Dividend Reinvestment Proceeds and a certificate from the chief financial officer of the Borrower that the Borrower shall continue to be in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Code and its bylaws and operating covenants after giving effect to such dividends or distributions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall be permitted at all times to distribute the minimum amount of dividends necessary to maintain its tax status as a real estate investment trust.
6.12.
Merger; Sale of Assets
. The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any merger (other than mergers in which the Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries is the survivor and mergers of Subsidiaries as part of transactions that are Permitted Acquisitions provided that following such merger the target entity becomes a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower), consolidation, reorganization or liquidation or transfer or otherwise dispose of all or a Substantial Portion of their Properties, except for (a) such transactions that occur between Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries or between Borrower and a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary and (b) mergers solely to change the jurisdiction of organization of a Subsidiary, provided that, in any event, approval in advance by the Required Lenders shall be required for transfer or disposition in any fiscal quarter of assets with an aggregate value greater than 10% of Total Asset Value, or any merger resulting in an increase to the Total Asset Value of more than 25% and the Borrower shall, regardless of any such merger or other transaction, continue as a surviving entity. Regardless of whether approval of the Required Lenders is necessary, for any sale, merger, or transfer of any Project or ownership interest in a Project which causes the aggregate value of such transactions in a single calendar quarter to exceed $250,000,000, the Borrower will give prior notice to the Administrative Agent and will deliver to the Administrative Agent a pro-forma compliance certificate based on the results of such transaction demonstrating compliance with the covenants contained herein.
6.13.
Intentionally Omitted
.
6.14.
Sale and Leaseback
. The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell or transfer a Substantial Portion of its Property in order to concurrently or subsequently lease such Property as lessee.
6.15.
Acquisitions and Investments
. The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, make or suffer to exist any Investments (including without limitation, loans and advances to, and other Investments in, Subsidiaries), or commitments therefor, or become or remain a partner in any partnership or joint venture, or to make any Acquisition of any Person, except:
(i)
Cash Equivalents and Marketable Securities;
(ii)
Investments in existing Subsidiaries, Investments in Subsidiaries formed for the purpose of developing or acquiring Projects, Investments in joint
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ventures and partnerships engaged solely in the business of purchasing, developing, owning, operating, leasing and managing Projects;
(iii)
transactions permitted pursuant to Section 6.12;
(iv)
Permitted Investments pursuant to Section 6.23;
(v)
Acquisitions of Persons whose primary operations consist of the ownership, development, operation and management of Projects; and
(vi)
Acquisitions of property management companies.
provided that, after giving effect to such Acquisitions and Investments, Borrower continues to comply with all its covenants herein. Acquisitions permitted pursuant to this Section 6.15 shall be deemed to be “Permitted Acquisitions”.
6.16.
Liens
. Subject to any more stringent requirements contained in the Mortgages with respect to the Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, the Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien in, of or on the Property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, except:
(i)
Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies on its Property if the same shall not at the time be delinquent or thereafter can be paid without penalty, or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves shall have been set aside on its books;
(ii)
Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’ liens and other similar liens arising in the ordinary course of business which secure payment of obligations not more than 60 days past due or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves shall have been set aside on their books;
(iii)
Liens arising out of pledges or deposits under workers’ compensation laws, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, or other social security or retirement benefits, or similar legislation;
(iv)
Easements, restrictions and such other encumbrances or charges against real property as are of a nature generally existing with respect to properties of a similar character and which do not in any material way affect the marketability of the same or interfere with the use thereof in the business of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries; and
(v)
First priority Liens other than Liens described in subsections (i) through (iv) above arising in connection with any Indebtedness permitted hereunder to the extent such Liens will not result in a Default in any of Borrower’s covenants herein.
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Liens permitted pursuant to this Section 6.16 shall be deemed to be “Permitted Liens”.
6.17.
Affiliates
. The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any transaction (including, without limitation, the purchase or sale of any Property or service) with, or make any payment or transfer to, any Affiliate except in the ordinary course of business and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than the Borrower or such Subsidiary would obtain in a comparable arms-length transaction.
6.18.
Financial Undertakings
. The Borrower will not enter into or remain liable upon, nor will they permit any Subsidiary to enter into or remain liable upon, any Financial Undertaking, except to the extent required to protect the Borrower and its Subsidiaries against increases in interest payable by them under variable interest Indebtedness.
6.19.
Variable Interest Indebtedness
. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall not permit the outstanding principal balance of any Consolidated Outstanding Indebtedness which bears interest at an interest rate that is not fixed through the maturity date of such Indebtedness to exceed twenty percent (20%) of Total Asset Value, unless all of such Indebtedness in excess of such amount is subject to a Rate Management Transaction approved by the Administrative Agent that effectively converts the interest rate on such excess to a fixed rate.
6.20.
Consolidated Net Worth
. The Borrower shall maintain a Consolidated Net Worth of not less than $1,750,000,000 plus seventy-five percent (75%) of the equity contributions or sales of treasury stock received by the Borrower after the Agreement Effective Date.
6.21.
Indebtedness and Cash Flow Covenants
. The Borrower on a consolidated basis with its Subsidiaries shall not permit:
(i)
The Leverage Ratio to exceed (A) prior to the issuance of Borrower’s financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2011, sixty-seven and one-half percent (67.5%), (B) on the date of such issuance and at any time thereafter prior to the issuance of Borrower’s financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2012, sixty-five percent (65%), and (C) on the date of issuance of such June 30, 2012 results and at all times thereafter, sixty percent (60%);
(ii)
The Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio to be less than (A) prior to the issuance of Borrower’s financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2011, 1.40 to 1.00, (B) on the date of such issuance and at all times prior to the issuance of Borrower’s financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2012, 1.45 to 1.00, and (C) on the date of issuance of such December 31, 2012 results and at all times thereafter, 1.50 to 1.00;
(iii)
The aggregate amount, without duplication, of (A) all Unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower or of any of its Subsidiaries, (B) all Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower or of any of its Subsidiaries, (C) all Recourse
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Indebtedness of the Borrower or of any of its Subsidiaries (excluding for purposes of each of clauses (A), (B) and (C) of this Section 6.21(iii) all Indebtedness and Guarantee Obligations owing to the Lenders from time to time pursuant this Agreement) to exceed $100,000,000;
(iv)
the Collateral Pool Leverage Ratio to exceed (A) prior to the issuance of Borrower’s financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2012, sixty-five percent (65%) or (B) at any time thereafter, sixty percent (60%) provided that no breach of this Section 6.21(iv) shall occur unless and until Borrower has failed to make the principal payments required to restore compliance with this covenant as provided in Section 2.8(b);
(v)
the Collateral Pool Debt Service Coverage to be less than (A) prior to issuance of Borrower’s financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2012, 1.50 to 1.00 or (B) at any time thereafter, 1.60 to 1.00, provided that no breach of this Section 6.21(v) shall occur unless and until Borrower has failed to make the principal payments required to restore compliance with this covenant as provided in Section 2.8(b); or
(vi)
the Collateral Pool Value to be less than $350,000,000, or there to be fewer than ten (10) Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties, at any time.
The foregoing covenants shall be deemed to have replaced the corresponding provisions of Section 6.21 of the Original Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2010 and for the period from such date through the Agreement Effective Date for purposes of determining Borrower’s compliance under the Original Credit Agreement as of December 31, 2010 and thereafter through the Agreement Effective Date.
6.22.
Environmental Matters
. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall:
(a)
Comply with, and use all reasonable efforts to ensure compliance by all tenants and subtenants, if any, with, all applicable Environmental Laws and obtain and comply with and maintain, and use all reasonable efforts to ensure that all tenants and subtenants obtain and comply with and maintain, any and all licenses, approvals, notifications, registrations or permits required by applicable Environmental Laws, except to the extent that failure to do so could not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided that in no event shall the Borrower or its Subsidiaries be required to modify the terms of leases, or renewals thereof, with existing tenants (i) at Projects owned by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries as of the date hereof, or (ii) at Projects hereafter acquired by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries as of the date of such acquisition, to add provisions to such effect.
(b)
Conduct and complete all investigations, studies, sampling and testing, and all remedial, removal and other actions required under Environmental Laws and promptly comply in all material respects with all lawful orders and directives of all Governmental Authorities regarding Environmental Laws, except to the extent that (i) the
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same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and the pendency of such proceedings could not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) the Borrower has determined in good faith that contesting the same is not in the best interests of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the failure to contest the same could not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c)
Defend, indemnify and hold harmless Administrative Agent and each Lender, and its respective officers, directors, agents and representatives from and against any claims, demands, penalties, fines, liabilities, settlements, damages, costs and expenses of whatever kind or nature known or unknown, contingent or otherwise, arising out of, or in any way relating to (i) the violation of, noncompliance with or liability under any Environmental Laws applicable to the operations of the Borrower, its Subsidiaries or the Projects, or any orders, requirements or demands of Governmental Authorities related thereto, (ii) any investigation, cleanup, remediation, removal, or restoration of conditions relating to any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property due to a Release of Hazardous Materials (whether on such property or migrating to or from such property), (iii) any damages, harm, or injuries to the person or property of any third parties or to any natural resources resulting from a Release of Hazardous Materials relating to any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, (iv) any actual or alleged past or present disposal, generation, manufacture, presence, processing, production, Release, storage, transportation, treatment, or use of any Hazardous Material at, on or from any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, and (v) any actual or alleged presence of any Hazardous Material on any Qualifying Collateral Pool Property, including, without limitation, attorney’s and consultant’s fees, investigation and laboratory fees, response costs, court costs and litigation expenses, except to the extent that any of the foregoing arise out of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification therefore. This indemnity shall continue in full force and effect regardless of the termination of this Agreement.
(d)
Prior to the acquisition of a new Project after the Agreement Effective Date, perform or cause to be performed an environmental investigation which investigation shall at a minimum comply with the specifications and procedures attached hereto as Exhibit E. In connection with any such investigation, Borrower shall cause to be prepared a report of such investigation, to be made available to any Lenders upon reasonable request, for informational purposes and to assure compliance with the specifications and procedures.
6.23.
Permitted Investments
. The Consolidated Group’s activities shall be limited to acquiring Projects (including Single Tenant Projects), engaging in construction activities and any business activities and investments incidental thereto (including investments in Marketable Securities, including without limitation Capital Stock in other real estate investment trusts which are publicly traded on a national exchange) except that the following Investments (“Permitted Investments”) shall also be permitted so long as the aggregate value of the Permitted Investments under each of the following clauses (a) through (d) shall not at any time exceed the individual percentage of Total Asset Value limits stated in such clause and the aggregate value
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of the Permitted Investments under all such clauses on a combined basis shall not at any time exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of Total Asset Value:
(a)
Unimproved Land and any other land not included in Unimproved Land or Construction in Progress -- five percent (5%) of Total Asset Value;
(b)
Investments in Investment Affiliates (valued at the greater of the cash investment in that entity by the Borrower or the portion of Total Asset Value attributable to such entity or its assets as the case may be) -- fifteen percent (15%) of Total Asset Value;
(c)
Construction in Progress -- ten (10%) of Total Asset Value; and
(d)
First Mortgage Receivables -- five percent (5%) of Total Asset Value.
The order and method of calculating the foregoing limitations shall be as shown on the form of compliance certificate attached as Exhibit D.
6.24.
Minimum Average Occupancy
. The Borrower agrees that the average economic occupancy of the overall portfolio of Projects (excluding Construction in Progress) owned by the Consolidated Group for each fiscal quarter shall exceed 80% of the average gross leaseable area of such Projects for such fiscal quarter. As used herein, economic occupancy shall mean occupancy by a tenant other than an Excluded Tenant.
6.25.
Prohibited Encumbrances
. The Borrower agrees that neither the Borrower nor any other members of the Consolidated Group shall (i) create or permit a Lien against any Project other than a single first-priority mortgage, deed to secure debt or deed of trust, (ii) create or permit a Lien on any Capital Stock or other ownership interests in any member of the Consolidated Group or any Investment Affiliate (other than the Liens against the Collateral created under the Loan Documents) or (iii) enter into or be subject to any agreement governing any Indebtedness which constitutes a Negative Pledge, an unencumbered asset covenant or other similar covenant or restriction which prohibits or limits the ability of Borrower or any other member of the Consolidated Group to sell or create Liens against any Projects (other than restrictions on further subordinate Liens on Projects already encumbered by a first-priority mortgage, deed to secure debt or deed of trust).
6.26.
Subsidiary Guaranty
. Borrower shall cause each of its existing Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 2, which includes all current subsidiaries of Borrower other than Excluded Subsidiaries, to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent the Subsidiary Guaranty. Borrower shall cause each Subsidiary which is hereafter acquired or formed (other than Excluded Subsidiaries) to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a joinder in the Subsidiary Guaranty in the form of Exhibit A attached to the form of Subsidiary Guaranty. Borrower covenants and agrees that each Subsidiary which it shall cause to execute the Subsidiary Guaranty shall be fully authorized to do so by its supporting organizational and authority documents and shall be in good standing in its state of organization and shall have obtained any necessary foreign qualifications required to conduct its business. If a Subsidiary that is initially not required to join in a Subsidiary Guaranty because it was an Excluded
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Subsidiary is later not precluded from doing so, then Borrower shall cause such Subsidiary to join in the Subsidiary Guaranty. The delivery by Borrower to the Administrative Agent of any such joinder shall be deemed a representation and warranty by Borrower that each Subsidiary which Borrower caused to execute the Subsidiary Guaranty has been fully authorized to do so by its supporting organizational and authority documents and is in good standing in its state of organization and has obtained any necessary foreign qualifications required to conduct its business.
6.27.
Releases
. With respect to any Subsidiary Guarantor whose Project has been encumbered with a Mortgage, if the release of such Mortgage has been approved under Section 2.3 above and such Subsidiary Guarantor owns no other Projects encumbered by a Mortgage, then the Administrative Agent is authorized to release such Subsidiary from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty, effective upon the date that such Mortgage is released. With respect to any other Subsidiary Guarantor, the Administrative Agent is authorized to release such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty effective upon the date that such Subsidiary Guarantor shall either become an Excluded Subsidiary or sell all of its assets.
6.28.
Amendments to Organizational Documents
. The Borrower shall not permit any material amendment to be made to its organizational documents without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders.
The occurrence of any one or more of the following events shall constitute a Default:
7.1.
Nonpayment of any principal payment due hereunder or under any Note when due. Nonpayment of interest upon any Note or of any Unused Fee or other payment Obligations under any of the Loan Documents within five (5) Business Days after the same becomes due.
7.2.
The breach of any of the terms or provisions of Sections 6.2 through 6.21 and 6.23 through 6.27.
7.3.
Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other members of the Consolidated Group to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent under or in connection with the Agreement, any Loan, or any material certificate or information delivered in connection with the Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be materially false on the date as of which made.
7.4.
The breach by the Borrower (other than a breach which constitutes a Default under Section 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 or 7.4) of any of the terms or provisions of the Agreement which is not remedied within five (5) days after written notice from the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
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7.5.
Failure of the Borrower or any other member of the Consolidated Group to pay when due (A) any Recourse Indebtedness with respect to which the aggregate recourse liability exceeds $20,000,000 or (B) any other Indebtedness in excess of $100,000,000 in the aggregate (any Indebtedness in excess of the limits described in clauses (A) or (B) being referred to herein as “Material Indebtedness”); or the default by the Borrower or any other member of the Consolidated Group in the performance of any term, provision or condition contained in any agreement, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, which causes or permits any such Material Indebtedness to be due and payable or required to be prepaid (other than by a regularly scheduled payment) prior to the stated maturity thereof, provided however that (i) in the case of Secured Indebtedness which is not Recourse Indebtedness, the failure to pay any such Indebtedness when due shall not constitute a Default, and such Indebtedness shall be excluded from and shall not be counted toward the applicable aggregate limits described in clauses (A) and (B) above, so long as the only default by Borrower or such member is the failure to pay such Indebtedness when due at maturity and Borrower or such member is actively pursuing the extension or refinancing of such Indebtedness and the holder of such Indebtedness has not initiated a foreclosure of its Lien or proceedings to have a receiver appointed for the collateral securing such Indebtedness, except that (x) the deferral under this clause shall not extend for more than ninety (90) days after the maturity date of such Indebtedness, subject to extension of such deferral period for an additional thirty (30) days if prior to the expiration of such 90 day period Borrower has provided to the Administrative Agent evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that Borrower or such member is continuing to diligently pursue such an extension or refinancing, and (y) the aggregate amount of such Secured Indebtedness that may be at any time be excluded from and not counted toward the applicable aggregate limits described in clauses (A) and (B) above as a result of such deferral shall not exceed $100,000,000 and any excess over $100,000,000 shall be included in and counted toward such limits under clauses (A) and (B) above, (ii) certain existing Secured Indebtedness described in the Disclosure Letter in the aggregate outstanding principal amount of approximately $39,500,000 shall be excluded from and not counted toward any calculations of Material Indebtedness if the default under such Secured Indebtedness arises solely from a transfer of interests in the Borrower in violation of covenants against transfers of indirect interests in the obligors thereunder and (iii) certain other existing Secured Indebtedness described in the Disclosure Letter in the outstanding principal amount of approximately $30,000,000 which is currently outstanding beyond the maturity date thereof shall be excluded from and not counted toward Material Indebtedness regardless of any default thereunder and non-payment of such other Secured Indebtedness shall not in any event give rise to a Default hereunder.
7.6.
The Borrower or any other member of the Consolidated Group shall (i) have an order for relief entered with respect to it under the Federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect, (ii) make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, (iii) apply for, seek, consent to, or acquiesce in, the appointment of a receiver, custodian, trustee, examiner, liquidator or similar official for it or any Substantial Portion of its Property, (iv) institute any proceeding seeking an order for relief under the Federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect or seeking to adjudicate it as a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking dissolution, winding up, liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of it or its debts under any law relating
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to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors or fail to file an answer or other pleading denying the material allegations of any such proceeding filed against it, (v) take any corporate action to authorize or effect any of the foregoing actions set forth in this Section 7.6, (vi) fail to contest in good faith any appointment or proceeding described in Section 7.7 or (vii) admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due.
7.7.
A receiver, trustee, examiner, liquidator or similar official shall be appointed for the Borrower or any other member or for any Substantial Portion of the Property of the Borrower or such other member of the Consolidated Group, or a proceeding described in Section 7.6(iv) shall be instituted against the Borrower or any such other member of the Consolidated Group and such appointment continues undischarged or such proceeding continues undismissed or unstayed for a period of ninety (90) consecutive days.
7.8.
The Borrower or any other member of the Consolidated Group shall fail within sixty (60) days to pay, bond or otherwise discharge any judgments or orders issued in proceedings with respect to which Borrower has been properly served or has been given due and proper written notice for the payment of money in an amount which, (excluding, however, any such judgments or orders related to any then outstanding Indebtedness which is not Recourse Indebtedness and which was not paid when due or is otherwise in default as described in Section 7.5 above, not to exceed, if such Indebtedness is included in Material Indebtedness, in the aggregate the $100,000,000 limit set forth in such Section 7.5), when added to all other judgments or orders outstanding against the Borrower or any other member of the Consolidated Group would exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate, which have not been stayed on appeal or otherwise appropriately contested in good faith.
7.9.
The Borrower or any other member of the Controlled Group shall have been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that it has incurred withdrawal liability to such Multiemployer Plan in an amount which, when aggregated with all other amounts required to be paid to Multiemployer Plans by the Borrower or any other member of the Controlled Group as withdrawal liability (determined as of the date of such notification), exceeds $1,000,000 or requires payments exceeding $500,000 per annum.
7.10.
The Borrower or any other member of the Controlled Group shall have been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that such Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or is being terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, if as a result of such reorganization or termination the aggregate annual contributions of the Borrower and the other members of the Controlled Group (taken as a whole) to all Multiemployer Plans which are then in reorganization or being terminated have been or will be increased over the amounts contributed to such Multiemployer Plans for the respective plan years of each such Multiemployer Plan immediately preceding the plan year in which the reorganization or termination occurs by an amount exceeding $500,000.
7.11.
Failure to remediate within the time period permitted by law or governmental order, after all administrative hearings and appeals have been concluded (or within a reasonable time in light of the nature of the problem if no specific time period is so established), material environmental problems at Properties owned by the Borrower or any other Member of
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the Consolidated Group or Investment Affiliates that have aggregate book values in excess of $50,000,000.
7.12.
The occurrence of any “Default” as defined in any Loan Document or the breach of any of the terms or provisions of any Loan Document, which default or breach continues beyond any period of grace therein provided.
7.13.
The attempted revocation, challenge, disavowment, or termination by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor of any of the Loan Documents.
7.14.
Any Change in Control shall occur.
7.15
Any Change in Management shall occur.
ARTICLE VIII.
ACCELERATION, WAIVERS, AMENDMENTS AND REMEDIES
8.1.
Acceleration
. If any Default described in Section 7.6 or 7.7 occurs with respect to the Borrower, the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and hereunder shall automatically terminate and the Obligations shall immediately become due and payable without any election or action on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender. If any other Default occurs, so long as a Default exists Lenders shall have no obligation to make any Loans and the Required Lenders, at any time prior to the date that such Default has been fully cured, may permanently terminate the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder and declare the Obligations to be due and payable, or both, whereupon (i) if the Required Lenders have elected to accelerate, the Obligations shall become immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which the Borrower hereby expressly waives and (ii) if any automatic or optional acceleration has occurred, the Administrative Agent, as directed by the Required Lenders (or if no such direction is given within 30 days after a request for direction, as the Administrative Agent deems in the best interests of the Lenders, in its sole discretion, until receipt of a subsequent direction from the Required Lenders), shall use its good faith efforts to collect, including without limitation, by filing and diligently pursuing judicial action, all amounts owed by the Borrower under the Loan Documents and to exercise all other rights and remedies available under applicable law.
In addition to the foregoing, following the occurrence of an Unmatured Default and so long as any Facility Letter of Credit has not been fully drawn and has not been cancelled or expired by its terms, upon demand by the Required Lenders the Borrower shall deposit in the Letter of Credit Collateral Account cash in an amount equal to the aggregate undrawn face amount of all outstanding Facility Letters of Credit and all fees and other amounts due or which may become due with respect thereto. The Borrower shall have no control over funds in the Letter of Credit Collateral Account and shall not be entitled to receive any interest thereon. Such funds shall be promptly applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank for drafts drawn from time to time under the Facility Letters of Credit and associated issuance costs and fees. Such funds, if any, remaining in the Letter of Credit Collateral Account following
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the payment of all Obligations in full shall, unless the Administrative Agent is otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction, be promptly paid over to the Borrower.
If, within 10 days after acceleration of the maturity of the Obligations or termination of the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder as a result of any Default (other than any Default as described in Section 7.6 or 7.7 with respect to the Borrower) and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the Obligations due shall have been obtained or entered, all of the Lenders (in their sole discretion) shall so direct, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower, rescind and annul such acceleration and/or termination.
8.2.
Amendments
. Subject to the provisions of this Article VIII the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent with the consent in writing of the Required Lenders) and the Borrower may enter into agreements supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding or modifying any provisions to the Loan Documents or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders or the Borrower hereunder or waiving any Default hereunder; provided, however, that no such supplemental agreement or waiver shall, without the consent of all Lenders:
(i)
Extend the Facility Termination Date (except as provided in Section 2.1), forgive all or any portion of the principal amount of any Loan or accrued interest thereon or of the Facility Letter of Credit Obligations or of the Unused Fee, reduce either of the Applicable Margins (or modify any definition herein which would have the effect of reducing either of the Applicable Margins) or the underlying interest rate options or extend the time of payment of any such principal, interest or Unused Fees and Facility Letter of Credit Fees;
(ii)
Change the percentage specified in the definition of Majority Lenders or Required Lenders;
(iii)
Increase the aggregate Revolving Commitments beyond $500,000,000, provided that no Lender’s Commitment can be increased without the consent of such Lender;
(iv)
Permit the Borrower to assign its rights under the Agreement or otherwise release the Borrower from any portion of the Obligations;
(v)
Release any Subsidiary Guarantor (other than a Subsidiary Guarantor released pursuant to Section 6.27) from the Subsidiary Guaranty and from any liability it may undertake with respect to the Obligations;
(vi)
Release any Mortgage (other than in accordance with Section 2.3); and
(vii)
Amend Sections 2.13, 8.1, 8.2 or 11.2.
No amendment of any provision of the Agreement relating to the Administrative Agent shall be effective without the written consent of the Administrative Agent.
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8.3.
Preservation of Rights
. No delay or omission of the Lenders or the Administrative Agent to exercise any right under the Loan Documents shall impair such right or be construed to be a waiver of any Default or an acquiescence therein, and the making of a Loan notwithstanding the existence of a Default or the inability of the Borrower to satisfy the conditions precedent to such Loan shall not constitute any waiver or acquiescence. Any single or partial exercise of any such right shall not preclude other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, and no waiver, amendment or other variation of the terms, conditions or provisions of the Loan Documents whatsoever shall be valid unless in writing signed by the Lenders required pursuant to Section 8.2, and then only to the extent in such writing specifically set forth. All remedies contained in the Loan Documents or by law afforded shall be cumulative and all shall be available to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders until the Obligations have been paid in full.
8.4.
Insolvency of Borrower
. In the event of the insolvency of the Borrower, the Commitments shall automatically terminate, the Lenders shall have no obligation to make further disbursements of the Facility, and the outstanding principal balance of the Facility, including accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall be immediately due and payable.
ARTICLE IX.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
9.1.
Survival of Representations
. All representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in the Agreement shall survive delivery of the Notes and the making of the Loans herein contemplated.
9.2.
Governmental Regulation
. Anything contained in the Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, no Lender shall be obligated to extend credit to the Borrower in violation of any limitation or prohibition provided by any applicable statute or regulation.
9.3.
Taxes
. Any taxes (excluding taxes on the overall net income of any Lender) or other similar assessments or charges made by any governmental or revenue authority in respect of the Loan Documents shall be paid by the Borrower, together with interest and penalties, if any.
9.4.
Headings
. Section headings in the Loan Documents are for convenience of reference only, and shall not govern the interpretation of any of the provisions of the Loan Documents.
9.5.
Entire Agreement
. The Loan Documents embody the entire agreement and understanding among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and supersede all prior commitments, agreements and understandings among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders relating to the subject matter thereof.
9.6.
Several Obligations; Benefits of the Agreement
. The respective obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several and not joint and no Lender shall be the partner or agent of any other (except to the extent to which the Administrative Agent is authorized to act as such). The failure of any Lender to perform any of its obligations hereunder shall not relieve any other
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Lender from any of its obligations hereunder. The Agreement shall not be construed so as to confer any right or benefit upon any Person other than the parties to the Agreement and their respective successors and assigns.
9.7.
Expenses; Indemnification
. The Borrower shall reimburse the Administrative Agent for any costs, internal charges and out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, all Appraisal costs, all reasonable fees for consultants and fees and reasonable expenses for attorneys for the Administrative Agent, which attorneys may be employees of the Administrative Agent) paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the administration, amendment, modification, and enforcement of the Loan Documents. The Borrower also agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for any reasonable costs, internal charges and out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, all fees and reasonable expenses for attorneys for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, which attorneys may be employees of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders) paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the collection and enforcement of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any workout). The Borrower further agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and their Affiliates, and their directors, employees, and officers against all losses, claims, damages, penalties, judgments, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, all fees and reasonable expenses for attorneys of the indemnified parties, all expenses of litigation or preparation therefore whether or not the Administrative Agent, or any Lender is a party thereto) which any of them may pay or incur arising out of or relating to the Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Projects, the transactions contemplated hereby or the direct or indirect application or proposed application of the proceeds of any Loan hereunder, except to the extent that any of the foregoing arise out of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification therefore. The Borrower agrees not to assert any claim against the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any of their respective Affiliates, or any of their or their respective Affiliates’ officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents, on any theory of liability, for consequential or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to any facility hereunder, the actual or proposed use of the Loans or any Letter of Credit, the Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby. The Borrower agrees that during the term of the Agreement, it shall under no circumstances claim, and hereby waives, any right of offset, counterclaim or defense against the Administrative Agent or any Lender with respect to the Obligations arising from, due to, related to or caused by any obligations, liability or other matter or circumstance which is not the Obligations and is otherwise unrelated to the Agreement. Any assignee of a Lender’s interest in and to the Agreement, its Note and the other Loan Documents shall take the same free and clear of all offsets, counterclaims or defenses which are unrelated to such documents which the Borrower may otherwise have against any assignor of such documents, and no such unrelated counterclaim or defense shall be interposed or asserted by the Borrower in any action or proceeding brought by any such assignee upon such documents and any such right to interpose or assert any such unrelated offset, counterclaim or defense in any such action or proceeding is hereby expressly waived by the Borrower. The obligations of the Borrower under this Section shall survive the termination of the Agreement.
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9.8.
Numbers of Documents
. All statements, notices, closing documents, and requests hereunder shall be furnished to the Administrative Agent with sufficient counterparts so that the Administrative Agent may furnish one to each of the Lenders.
9.9.
Accounting
. Except as provided to the contrary herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted and all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made in accordance with GAAP.
9.10.
Severability of Provisions
. Any provision in any Loan Document that is held to be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid in any jurisdiction shall, as to that jurisdiction, be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid without affecting the remaining provisions in that jurisdiction or the operation, enforceability, or validity of that provision in any other jurisdiction, and to this end the provisions of all Loan Documents are declared to be severable.
9.11.
Nonliability of Lenders
. The relationship between the Borrower, on the one hand, and the Lenders and the Administrative Agent, on the other, shall be solely that of borrowers and lender. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any fiduciary responsibilities to the Borrower. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender undertakes any responsibility to the Borrower to review or inform the Borrower of any matter in connection with any phase of the Borrower’s business or operations.
9.12.
CHOICE OF LAW
. THE LOAN DOCUMENTS (OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINING A CONTRARY EXPRESS CHOICE OF LAW PROVISION) SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS (AND NOT THE LAW OF CONFLICTS) OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, BUT GIVING EFFECT TO FEDERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO NATIONAL BANKS.
9.13.
CONSENT TO JURISDICTION
. THE BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR ILLINOIS STATE COURT SITTING IN CHICAGO IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN ANY SUCH COURT AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE AS TO THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN SUCH A COURT OR THAT SUCH COURT IS AN INCONVENIENT FORUM. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL LIMIT THE RIGHT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER TO BRING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE BORROWER IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. ANY JUDICIAL PROCEEDING BY THE BORROWER AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER INVOLVING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ANY MATTER IN ANY WAY ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO, OR CONNECTED WITH ANY LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL BE BROUGHT ONLY IN A COURT IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
9.14.
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
. THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH LENDER HEREBY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY JUDICIAL PROCEEDING
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INVOLVING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ANY MATTER (WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) IN ANY WAY ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO, OR CONNECTED WITH ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED THEREUNDER.
9.15.
USA Patriot Act Notice
. Each Lender and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Act.
ARTICLE X.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
10.1.
Appointment
. KeyBank National Association, is hereby appointed Administrative Agent hereunder and under each other Loan Document, and each of the Lenders irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as the agent of such Lender. The Administrative Agent agrees to act as such upon the express conditions contained in this Article X. Notwithstanding the use of the defined term “Administrative Agent,” it is expressly understood and agreed that the Administrative Agent shall not have any fiduciary responsibilities to any Lender by reason of the Agreement or any other Loan Document and that the Administrative Agent is merely acting as the contractual representative of the Lenders with only those duties as are expressly set forth in the Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In its capacity as the Lenders’ contractual representative, the Administrative Agent (i) shall perform its duties with respect to the administration of the Facility in the same manner as it does when it is the sole lender under this type of facility but does not hereby assume any fiduciary duties to any of the Lenders, (ii) is a “representative” of the Lenders within the meaning of the term “secured party” as defined in the Illinois Uniform Commercial Code and (iii) is acting as an independent contractor, the rights and duties of which are limited to those expressly set forth in the Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Each of the Lenders hereby agrees to assert no claim against the Administrative Agent on any agency theory or any other theory of liability for breach of fiduciary duty, all of which claims each Lender hereby waives, provided that the Administrative Agent shall, in any case, not be released from liability to the Lenders for damages or losses incurred by them as a result of the Administrative Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
10.2.
Powers
. The Administrative Agent shall have and may exercise such powers under the Loan Documents as are specifically delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of each thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent shall have no implied duties to the Lenders, or any obligation to the Lenders to take any action thereunder except any action specifically provided by the Loan Documents to be taken by the Administrative Agent.
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10.3.
General Immunity
. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable to the Borrower, the Lenders or any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them hereunder or under any other Loan Document or in connection herewith or therewith except for its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct or, in the case of the Administrative Agent, its breach of an express obligation under the Agreement; or (ii) any determination by the Administrative Agent that compliance with any law or any governmental or quasi-governmental rule, regulation, order, policy, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) requires the Advances and Commitments hereunder to be classified as being part of a “highly leveraged transaction”.
10.4.
No Responsibility for Loans, Recitals, etc
. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents or employees shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in connection with any Loan Document or any borrowing hereunder; (ii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants or agreements of any obligor under any Loan Document, including, without limitation, any agreement by an obligor to furnish information directly to each Lender; (iii) the satisfaction of any condition specified in Article IV, except receipt of items required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent; (iv) the validity, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other instrument or writing furnished in connection therewith; (v) the value, sufficiency, creation, perfection, or priority of any interest in any collateral security; or (vi) the financial condition of the Borrower. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the Administrative Agent shall have no duty to disclose to the Lenders information that is not required to be furnished by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent at such time, but is voluntarily furnished by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent (either in its capacity as Administrative Agent or in its individual capacity).
10.5.
Action on Instructions of Lenders
. The Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, hereunder and under any other Loan Document in accordance with written instructions signed by the required percentage of the Lenders needed to take such action or refrain from taking such action, and such instructions and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding on all of the Lenders. The Lenders hereby acknowledge that the Administrative Agent shall be under no duty to take any discretionary action permitted to be taken by it pursuant to the provisions of the Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall be requested in writing to do so by the Required Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action hereunder and under any other Loan Document unless it shall first be indemnified to its reasonable satisfaction by the Lenders pro rata against any and all liability, cost and expense that it may incur by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.
10.6.
Employment of Agents and Counsel
. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties as Administrative Agent hereunder and under any other Loan Document by or through employees, agents, and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be answerable to the Lenders, except as to money or securities received by it or its authorized agents, for the default or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with reasonable care. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to the agency hereby created and its duties hereunder and under any other Loan Document.
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10.7.
Reliance on Documents; Counsel
. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any Note, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, statement, paper or document believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper person or persons, and, in respect to legal matters, upon the opinion of counsel selected by the Administrative Agent, which counsel may be employees of the Administrative Agent.
10.8.
Administrative Agent’s Reimbursement and Indemnification
. The Lenders agree to reimburse and indemnify the Administrative Agent ratably in proportion to their respective Commitments (i) for any amounts not reimbursed by the Borrower for which the Administrative Agent is entitled to reimbursement by the Borrower under the Loan Documents, (ii) for any other expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders, in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration and enforcement of the Loan Documents, if not paid by Borrower and (iii) for any liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind and nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or any other document delivered in connection therewith or the transactions contemplated thereby (including without limitation, for any such amounts incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent in connection with any dispute between the Administrative Agent and any Lender or between two or more of the Lenders), or the enforcement of any of the terms thereof or of any such other documents, provided that no Lender shall be liable for any of the foregoing to the extent they arise from the gross negligence or willful misconduct or a breach of the Administrative Agent’s express obligations and undertakings to the Lenders. The obligations of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under this Section 10.8 shall survive payment of the Obligations and termination of the Agreement.
10.9.
Rights as a Lender
. In the event the Administrative Agent is a Lender, the Administrative Agent shall have the same rights and powers hereunder and under any other Loan Document as any Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, at any time when the Administrative Agent is a Lender, unless the context otherwise indicates, include the Administrative Agent in its individual capacity. The Administrative Agent may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of trust, debt, equity or other transaction, in addition to those contemplated by the Agreement or any other Loan Document, with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in which the Borrower or such Subsidiaries are not restricted hereby from engaging with any other Person. The Administrative Agent, in its individual capacity, is not obligated to remain a Lender.
10.10.
Lender Credit Decision
. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on the financial statements prepared by the Borrower and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into the Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
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credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
10.11.
Successor Administrative Agent
. Except as otherwise provided below, KeyBank National Association shall at all times serve as the Administrative Agent during the term of this Facility. The Administrative Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower, such resignation to be effective upon the appointment of a successor Administrative Agent or, if no successor Administrative Agent has been appointed, forty-five days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its intention to resign. The Administrative Agent may be removed at any time with cause (which shall include, without limitation, the Administrative Agent becoming a Defaulting Lender) by written notice received by the Administrative Agent from the Required Lenders (but excluding, for purposes of calculating the percentage needed to constitute Required Lenders in such instance, the Commitment of the Administrative Agent from the Aggregate Commitment and the Advances held by the Administrative Agent from the total outstanding Advances), such removal to be effective on the date specified by such Lenders. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint, on behalf of the Borrower and the Lenders, a successor Administrative Agent. If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders within thirty days after the resigning Administrative Agent’s giving notice of its intention to resign, then the resigning Administrative Agent may appoint, on behalf of the Borrower and the Lenders, a successor Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Administrative Agent may at any time without the consent of the Borrower or any Lender, appoint any of its Affiliates which is a commercial bank as a successor Administrative Agent hereunder. If the Administrative Agent has resigned or been removed and no successor Administrative Agent has been appointed, the Lenders may perform all the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder and the Borrower shall make all payments in respect of the Obligations to the applicable Lender and for all other purposes shall deal directly with the Lenders. No successor Administrative Agent shall be deemed to be appointed hereunder until such successor Administrative Agent has accepted the appointment. Any such successor Administrative Agent shall be a commercial bank having capital and retained earnings of at least $500,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the resigning or removed Administrative Agent. Upon the effectiveness of the resignation or removal of the Administrative Agent, the resigning or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the Loan Documents. After the effectiveness of the resignation or removal of an Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article X shall continue in effect for the benefit of such Administrative Agent in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents.
10.12.
Notice of Defaults
. If a Lender becomes aware of a Default or Unmatured Default, such Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent of such fact provided that the failure to give such notice shall not create liability on the part of a Lender. Upon receipt of such notice that a Default or Unmatured Default has occurred or upon it otherwise having actual knowledge
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of any Default or Unmatured Default, the Administrative Agent shall notify each of the Lenders of such fact.
10.13.
Requests for Approval
. If the Administrative Agent requests in writing the consent or approval of a Lender, such Lender shall respond and either approve or disapprove definitively in writing to the Administrative Agent within ten Business Days (or sooner if such notice specifies a shorter period for responses based on Administrative Agent’s good faith determination that circumstances exist warranting its request for an earlier response) after such written request from the Administrative Agent. If the Lender does not so respond, that Lender shall be deemed to have approved the request, unless the consent or approval of all Lenders is required for the requested action as provided under Section 8.2, in which event failure to so respond shall not be deemed to be an approval of such request.
10.14.
Defaulting Lenders
. At such time as a Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s right to vote on matters which are subject to the consent or approval of the Required Lenders, each affected Lender or all Lenders shall be immediately suspended until such time as the Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, except that, without the consent of such Lender, (i) the amount of the Commitment of the Defaulting Lender may not be increased, (ii) the Facility Termination Date and the time of payment of any principal or interest due to such Defaulting Lender may not be extended (except as provided in Section 2.1), and (iii) no portion of the principal amount of any Loan due to such Defaulting Lender or accrued interest thereon may be forgiven. If a Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its pro rata share of any Advance and until such time as such Defaulting Lender subsequently funds its pro rata share of such Advance, all Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender hereunder shall be subordinated in right of payment, as provided in the following sentence, to the prior payment in full of all principal of, interest on and fees relating to the Loans funded by the other Lenders in connection with any such Advance in which the Defaulting Lender has not funded its pro rata share (such principal, interest and fees being referred to as “Senior Loans” for the purposes of this section). All amounts paid by the Borrower and otherwise due to be applied to the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to the terms hereof shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent to the other Lenders in accordance with their respective pro rata shares (recalculated for the purposes hereof to exclude the Defaulting Lender) until all Senior Loans have been paid in full. After the Senior Loans have been paid in full equitable adjustments will be made in connection with future payments by the Borrower to the extent a portion of the Senior Loans had been repaid with amounts that otherwise would have been distributed to a Defaulting Lender but for the operation of this Section 10.14. This provision governs only the relationship among the Administrative Agent, each Defaulting Lender and the other Lenders; nothing hereunder shall limit the obligation of the Borrower to repay all Loans in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. The provisions of this section shall apply and be effective regardless of whether a Default occurs and is continuing, and notwithstanding (i) any other provision of the Agreement to the contrary, (ii) any instruction of the Borrower as to its desired application of payments or (iii) the suspension of such Defaulting Lender’s right to vote on matters which are subject to the consent or approval of the Required Lenders or all Lenders.
10.15.
Additional Agents
. Neither the Co-Documentation Agents nor the Syndication Agent as designated on the cover of the Agreement have any rights or obligations under the
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Loan Documents as a result of such designation or of any actions undertaken in such capacity, such parties having only those rights or obligations arising hereunder in their capacities as a Lender.
ARTICLE XI.
SETOFF; RATABLE PAYMENTS
11.1.
Setoff
. In addition to, and without limitation of, any rights of the Lenders under applicable law, if the Borrower or any of the Subsidiary Guarantors becomes insolvent, however evidenced, or any Default occurs, any and all deposits (including all account balances, whether provisional or final and whether or not collected or available) and any other Indebtedness at any time held or owing by any Lender or any of its Affiliates to or for the credit or account of the Borrower may be offset and applied toward the payment of the Obligations owing to such Lender at any time prior to the date that such Default has been fully cured, whether or not the Obligations, or any part hereof, shall then be due, provided, however that no such set off or offset shall be permitted if the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion, has a good faith belief that such an offset might impair any other remedies available to the Lenders under the Security Documents.
11.2.
Ratable Payments
. If any Lender, whether by setoff or otherwise, has payment made to it upon its Loans (other than payments of Swingline Loans and payments received pursuant to Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 or 3.5) in a greater proportion than that received by any other Lender, such Lender agrees, promptly upon demand, to purchase a portion of the Loans held by the other Lenders so that after such purchase each Lender will hold its ratable proportion of Loans. If any Lender, whether in connection with setoff or amounts which might be subject to setoff or otherwise, receives collateral or other protection for its Obligations or such amounts which may be subject to setoff, such Lender agrees, promptly upon demand, to take such action necessary such that all Lenders share in the benefits of such collateral ratably in proportion to their Loans. In case any such payment is disturbed by legal process, or otherwise, appropriate further adjustments shall be made.
ARTICLE XII.
BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS; PARTICIPATIONS
12.1.
Successors and Assigns
. The terms and provisions of the Loan Documents shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower and the Lenders and their respective successors and assigns, except that (i) the Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights or obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) any assignment by any Lender must be made in compliance with Section 12.3. The parties to the Agreement acknowledge that clause (ii) of this Section 12.1 relates only to absolute assignments and does not prohibit assignments creating security interests, including, without limitation, (x) any pledge or assignment by any Lender of all or any portion of its rights under the Agreement and any Note to a Federal Reserve Bank or (y) in the case of a Lender which is a fund, any pledge or assignment of all or any portion of its rights under the Agreement and any Note to its trustee in support of its obligations to its trustee; provided, however, that no such pledge or assignment creating a security interest shall release the transferor Lender from its obligations hereunder unless and until the parties
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thereto have complied with the provisions of Section 12.3. The Administrative Agent may treat the Person which made any Loan or which holds any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until such Person complies with Section 12.3; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent may in its discretion (but shall not be required to) follow instructions from the Person which made any Loan or which holds any Note to direct payments relating to such Loan or Note to another Person. Any assignee of the rights to any Loan or any Note agrees by acceptance of such assignment to be bound by all the terms and provisions of the Loan Documents. Any request, authority or consent of any Person, who at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent is the owner of the rights to any Loan (whether or not a Note has been issued in evidence thereof), shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent holder or assignee of the rights to such Loan.
12.2.
Participations
.
(i)
Permitted Participants; Effect. Any Lender may, in the ordinary course of its business and in accordance with applicable law, at any time sell to one or more banks, financial institutions, pension funds, or any other funds or entities (“Participants”) participating interests in any Loan owing to such Lender, any Note held by such Lender, any Commitment of such Lender or any other interest of such Lender under the Loan Documents. In the event of any such sale by a Lender of participating interests to a Participant, such Lender’s obligations under the Loan Documents shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes under the Loan Documents, all amounts payable by the Borrower under the Agreement shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participating interests, and the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under the Loan Documents.
(ii)
Voting Rights. Each Lender shall retain the sole right to approve, without the consent of any Participant, any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents other than any amendment, modification or waiver with respect to any Loan or Commitment in which such Participant has an interest which would require consent of all the Lenders pursuant to the terms of Section 8.2 or of any other Loan Document.
(iii)
Benefit of Setoff. The Borrower agree that each Participant which has previously advised the Borrower in writing of its purchase of a participation in a Lender’s interest in its Loans shall be deemed to have the right of setoff provided in Section 11.1 in respect of its participating interest in amounts owing under the Loan Documents to the same extent as if the amount of its participating interest were owing directly to it as a Lender under the Loan Documents. Each Lender shall retain the right of setoff provided in Section 11.1 with respect to the amount of participating interests sold to each Participant, provided that such Lender and Participant may not each setoff amounts against
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the same portion of the Obligations, so as to collect the same amount from the Borrower twice. The Lenders agree to share with each Participant, and each Participant, by exercising the right of setoff provided in Section 11.1, agrees to share with each Lender, any amount received pursuant to the exercise of its right of setoff, such amounts to be shared in accordance with Section 11.2 as if each Participant were a Lender.
12.3.
Assignments
.
(i)
Permitted Assignments. Any Lender may, in the ordinary course of its business and in accordance with applicable law, at any time assign to any Eligible Assignee, without any approval from the Borrower except as provided in the definition thereof (any such assignees being referred to herein as “Purchasers”), all or any portion (greater than or equal to $5,000,000 for each assignee, so long as the hold position of the assigning Lender is not less than $5,000,000) of its rights and obligations under the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no approval of the Borrower shall be required for any such assignment if a Default has occurred and is then continuing. Such assignment shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto or in such other form as may be agreed to by the parties thereto. The consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required prior to an assignment becoming effective with respect to a Purchaser which is not a Lender or an Affiliate thereof or fund related thereto. Such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(ii)
Effect; Effective Date. Upon (i) delivery to the Administrative Agent of a notice of assignment, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit “I” to Exhibit J hereto (a “Notice of Assignment”), together with any consents required by Section 12.3.1, and (ii) payment of a $3,500 fee by the assignor or assignee to the Administrative Agent for processing such assignment, such assignment shall become effective on the effective date specified in such Notice of Assignment. The Notice of Assignment shall contain a representation by the Purchaser to the effect that none of the consideration used to make the purchase of the Commitment and Loans under the applicable assignment agreement are “plan assets” as defined under ERISA and that the rights and interests of the Purchaser in and under the Loan Documents will not be “plan assets” under ERISA. On and after the effective date of such assignment, such Purchaser shall for all purposes be a Lender party to the Agreement and any other Loan Document executed by the Lenders and shall have all the rights and obligations of a Lender under the Loan Documents, to the same extent as if it were an original party hereto, and no further consent or action by the Borrower, the Lenders or the Administrative Agent shall be required to release the transferor Lender, and the transferor Lender shall automatically be released on the effective date of such assignment, with respect to the percentage of the Aggregate Commitment and Loans assigned to such Purchaser. Upon the consummation of any assignment to a Purchaser pursuant to this Section 12.3.2, the transferor Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall make appropriate
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arrangements so that replacement Notes are issued to such transferor Lender and new Notes or, as appropriate, replacement Notes, are issued to such Purchaser, in each case in principal amounts reflecting its Commitment, as adjusted pursuant to such assignment.
12.4.
Dissemination of Information
. The Borrower authorizes each Lender to disclose to any Participant or Purchaser or any other Person acquiring an interest in the Loan Documents by operation of law (each a “Transferee”) and any prospective Transferee any and all information in such Lender’s possession concerning the creditworthiness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, subject to Section 9.11 of the Agreement.
12.5.
Tax Treatment
. If any interest in any Loan Document is transferred to any Transferee which is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any State thereof, the transferor Lender shall cause such Transferee, concurrently with the effectiveness of such transfer, to comply with the provisions of Section 3.5.
13.1.
Giving Notice
. Except as otherwise permitted by Section 2.14 with respect to borrowing notices, all notices and other communications provided to any party hereto under the Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be in writing or by telex or by facsimile and addressed or delivered to such party at its address set forth below its signature hereto or at such other address (or to counsel for such party) as may be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties. Any notice, if mailed and properly addressed with postage prepaid, shall be deemed given when received; any notice, if transmitted by telex or facsimile, shall be deemed given when transmitted (answerback confirmed in the case of telexes).
13.2.
Change of Address
. The Borrower, the Administrative Agent and any Lender may each change the address for service of notice upon it by a notice in writing to the other parties hereto.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one agreement, and any of the parties hereto may execute this Amendment by signing any such counterpart. This Agreement shall be effective when it has been executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and each party has notified the Administrative Agent, either by electronic transmission by email with a pdf copy or other electronic reproduction of an executed page attached or by telephone, that it has taken such action.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.
INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC.
By:
Print Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title:
President and Chief Executive Officer
0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
with a copy to:
0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-88
TERM COMMITMENT:
$19,230,769
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$55,769,231
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
Individually and as Administrative Agent
By:
Print Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
KeyBank Real Estate Capital
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx XX, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-89
TERM COMMITMENT:
$19,230,769
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$55,769,231
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., individually
and as Syndication Agent
By:
Print Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Credit Banker
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-90
TERM COMMITMENT:
$19,230,769
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$55,769,231
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY OF
AMERICAS, as Lender
By:
Print Name:
Title:
By:
Print Name:
Title:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Director
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., as
Co-Documentation Agent
By:
Print Name:
Title:
By:
Print Name:
Title:
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-91
TERM COMMITMENT:
$19,230,769
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$55,769,231
CITIBANK, N.A., individually as
Co-Documentation Agent
By:
Print Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Director
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxx, Vice President
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-92
TERM COMMITMENT:
$12,820,513
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$37,179,487
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, as Lender
By:
Name:
Xxxxx Xxxx
Title:
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 212-428-6460
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, as Co-Documentation Agent
By:
Name:
_________________________________
Title:
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-93
TERM COMMITMENT:
$3,846,154
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$11,153,846
RBC BANK (USA)
By:
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Market Executive - National Division
000 Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-94
TERM COMMITMENT:
$12,820,513
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$37,179,487
NORDDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK
GIROZENTRALE, NEW YORK BRANCH
By:
Print Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Senior Director
By:
Print Name: Xxxx Xxx
Title: Director
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Attention:
Real Estate Finance
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-95
TERM COMMITMENT:
$12,820,513
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$37,179,487
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
By:
Print Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
000 Xxxxx XxXxxxx Xxxxxx
XX0-000-00-00
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxx
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-96
TERM COMMITMENT:
$12,820,513
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$37,179,487
BANK OF MONTREAL, CHICAGO BRANCH
By:
Print Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Director
110 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0X
Xxxxxxx XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-97
TERM COMMITMENT:
$10,256,410
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$29,743,590
REGIONS BANK
By:
Print Name: Xxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
1600 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone:
000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Vice President
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-98
TERM COMMITMENT:
$ 7,692,308
REVOLVING COMMITMENT:
$22,307,692
UNION BANK, N.A.
By:
Print Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
220 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Signature Page to Credit Agreement
S-99
EXHIBIT A
APPLICABLE MARGINS
The interest due hereunder with respect to the Advances shall vary from time to time and shall be determined by reference to the Type of Advance and the then-current Leverage Ratio. Any such change in the Applicable Margin shall be made on the fifth (5th) day subsequent to the date on which the Administrative Agent receives a compliance certificate pursuant to Section 6.1(v) with respect to the preceding fiscal quarter of Borrower, provided that the Administrative Agent does not object to the information provided in such certificate. In the event any such compliance certificate is not delivered by Borrower when due under Section 6.1(v) the Administrative Agent shall have the right, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, to increase the Applicable Margins to the next higher level until such compliance certificate is delivered, by delivering written notice thereof to Borrower. Such changes shall be given prospective effect only, and no recalculation shall be done with respect to interest or Facility Letter of Credit Fees accrued prior to the date of such change in the Applicable Margin. If any such compliance certificate shall later be determined to be incorrect and as a result a higher Applicable Margin should have been in effect for any period, Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders all additional interest and fees which would have accrued if the original compliance certificate had been correct, as shown on an invoice to be prepared by the Administrative Agent and delivered to Borrower, on the next Payment Date following delivery of such invoice. The per annum Applicable Margins that will be either added to the Alternate Base Rate to determine the Floating Rate or added to LIBOR Base Rate (as adjusted for any Reserve Requirement) to determine the LIBOR Rate for any LIBOR Interest Period shall be determined as follows:
|
| ABR |
< 50% | 2.75% | 1.75% |
> 50%, < 55% | 3.00% | 2.00% |
> 55%, < 60% | 3.25% | 2.25% |
> 60%, < 65% | 3.50% | 2.50% |
> 65%, < 67.5% | 4.00% | 3.00% |
A-1
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF NOTE
February __, 2000
Xxxxxx Xestern Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maryland (the “Borrower”), promises to pay to the order of ____________________ (the “Lender”) the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Loans made by the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Article II of the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof among the Borrower, KeyBank National Association, individually and as Administrative Agent, and the other Lenders named therein (as the same may be amended or modified, the “Agreement”) hereinafter referred to, in immediately available funds at the main office of KeyBank National Association in Cleveland, Ohio, as Administrative Agent, together with interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof at the rates and on the dates set forth in the Agreement. The Borrower shall pay remaining unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans in full on the Facility Termination Date or such earlier date as may be required under the Agreement.
The Lender shall, and is hereby authorized to, record on the schedule attached hereto, or to otherwise record in accordance with its usual practice, the date and amount of each Loan and the date and amount of each principal payment hereunder.
This Note is one of the Notes issued pursuant to, and is entitled to the benefits of, the Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time, reference is hereby made for a statement of the terms and conditions governing this Note, including the terms and conditions under which this Note may be prepaid or its maturity date accelerated. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used with the meanings attributed to them in the Agreement.
If there is a Default under the Agreement or any other Loan Document and Administrative Agent exercises the remedies provided under the Agreement and/or any of the Loan Documents for the Lenders, then in addition to all amounts recoverable by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under such documents, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to receive reasonable attorneys fees and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection with the exercise of such remedies.
Borrower and all endorsers severally waive presentment, protest and demand, notice of protest, demand and of dishonor and nonpayment of this Note, and any and all lack of diligence or delays in collection or enforcement of this Note, and expressly agree that this Note, or any payment hereunder, may be extended from time to time, and expressly consent to the release of any party liable for the obligation secured by this Note, the release of any of the security for this Note, the acceptance of any other security therefore, or any other indulgence or forbearance whatsoever, all without notice to any party and without affecting the liability of the Borrower and any endorsers hereof.
This Note shall be governed and construed under the internal laws of the State of Illinois.
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BORROWER AND LENDER, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, EACH HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE OR DEFEND ANY RIGHT UNDER THIS NOTE OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR RELATING THERETO OR ARISING FROM THE LENDING RELATIONSHIP WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS NOTE AND AGREE THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A JUDGE AND NOT BEFORE A JURY.
INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC.
By:
Print Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
2900 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 630-218-4955
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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SCHEDULE OF LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL
TO
NOTE OF INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC.,
DATED FEBRUARY __, 2011
Maturity
Principal
Maturity
Principal
Amount of
of Interest
Amount
Unpaid
Date
Loan
Period
Paid
Balance
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EXHIBIT C
AMENDMENT REGARDING INCREASE
This Amendment to Credit Agreement (the “Amendment”) is made as of __________, 20__, by and among Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc. (the “Borrower”), KeyBank National Association, as “Administrative Agent,” and one or more existing or new “Lenders” shown on the signature pages hereof.
R E C I T A L S
A.
Borrower, Administrative Agent and certain other Lenders have entered into an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February 4, 2011 (as amended, the “Credit Agreement”). All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
B.
Pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, the Lenders initially agreed to provide Borrower with Revolving Commitments in an aggregate principal amount of up to $350,000,000. Borrower and the Agent on behalf of the Lenders now desire to amend the Credit Agreement in order to, among other things (i) increase the aggregate Revolving Commitments to $___________; and (ii) admit [name of new banks] as “Lenders” under the Credit Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing Recitals and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
AGREEMENTS
1.
The foregoing Recitals to this Amendment hereby are incorporated into and made part of this Amendment.
2.
From and after _________, ____ (the “Effective Date”) (i) [name of new banks] shall be considered as “Lenders” under the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents, and (ii) [name of existing Lenders] shall each be deemed to have increased its Commitment to the amount shown next to their respective signatures on the signature pages of this Amendment, each having a Revolving Commitment in the amount shown next to their respective signatures on the signature pages of this Amendment. Borrower shall, on or before the Effective Date, execute and deliver to each new Lender a Note to evidence the Loans to be made by such Lender.
3.
From and after the Effective Date, the aggregate Revolving Commitments shall equal __________ Million Dollars ($___,000,000).
4.
For purposes of Section 13.1 of the Credit Agreement (Giving Notice), the address(es) and facsimile number(s) for [name of new banks] shall be as specified below their respective signature(s) on the signature pages of this Amendment.
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5.
Borrower hereby represents and warrants that, as of the Effective Date, there is no Default or Unmatured Default, the representations and warranties contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects as of such date and Borrower has no offsets or claims against any of the Lenders.
6.
As expressly modified as provided herein, the Credit Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
7.
This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one agreement, and any of the parties hereto may execute this Amendment by signing any such counterpart.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Amendment as of the date first written above.
INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC., a Maryland corporation
By:
Print Name:
Title:
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent
By:
Print Name:
Title:
[NAME OF NEW LENDER]
By:
Print Name:
Title:
Phone:
Facsimile:
Attention:
Amount of Commitment:
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EXHIBIT D
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
KeyBank National Association, as Administrative Agent
120 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000
Re: | Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated February 4, 2011 (as amended, modified, supplemented, restated, or renewed, from time to time, the “Agreement”) between INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC. (the “Borrower”), and KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent for itself and the other lenders parties thereto from time to time (“Lenders”). |
Reference is made to the Agreement. Capitalized terms used in this Certificate (including schedules and other attachments hereto, this “Certificate”) without definition have the meanings specified in the Agreement.
Pursuant to applicable provisions of the Agreement, Borrower hereby certifies to the Lenders that the information furnished in the attached schedules, including, without limitation, each of the calculations listed below are true, correct and complete in all material respects as of the last day of the fiscal periods subject to the financial statements and associated covenants being delivered to the Lenders pursuant to the Agreement together with this Certificate (such statements the “Financial Statements” and the periods covered thereby the “reporting period”) and for such reporting periods.
The undersigned hereby further certifies to the Lenders that:
1.
Compliance with Financial Covenants. Schedule A attached hereto sets forth financial data and computations evidencing the Borrower’s compliance with certain covenants of the Agreement, all of which data and computations are true, complete and correct.
2.
Review of Condition. The undersigned has reviewed the terms of the Agreement, including, but not limited to, the representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in the Agreement and the covenants of the Borrower set forth in the Agreement, and has made, or caused to be made under his or her supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and condition of the Borrower through the reporting periods.
3.
Representations and Warranties. To the undersigned’s actual knowledge, the representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in the Loan Documents, including those contained in the Agreement, are true and accurate in all material respects as of the date hereof and were true and accurate in all material respects at all times during the reporting period except as expressly noted on Schedule B hereto.
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4.
Covenants. To the undersigned’s actual knowledge, during the reporting period, the Borrower observed and performed all of the respective covenants and other agreements under the Agreement and the Loan Documents, and satisfied each of the conditions contained therein to be observed, performed or satisfied by the Borrower, except as expressly noted on Schedule B hereto.
5.
No Unmatured Default. To the undersigned’s actual knowledge, no Default or Unmatured Default exists as of the date hereof or existed at any time during the reporting period, except as expressly noted on Schedule B hereto.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate is executed by the undersigned this ___ day of _______________, 201__.
INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE A TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
COMPLIANCE CALCULATION METHOD
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SCHEDULE B TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
EXCEPTIONS, IF ANY
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EXHIBIT E
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION SPECIFICATIONS AND PROCEDURES
Phase I Environmental Site Assessments to be prepared in accordance with the ASTM Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process (ASTM Designation E1527-94), a summary of which follows:
This ASTM practice is generally considered the industry standard for conducting a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA). The purpose of this standard is to “define good commercial and customary practice in the Untied States of America for conducting an ESA of a parcel of commercial real estate with respect to the range of contaminants within the scope of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and petroleum products.” The ASTM Phase I ESA is intended to permit a user to satisfy one of the requirements to qualify for the innocent landowner defense to CERCLA liability; that is, the practice that constitutes “all appropriate inquiry into the previous ownership and uses of the property consistent with good commercial or customary practices” as defined in 42 USC 9601(35)(B).
The goal of the ASTM Phase I ESA is to identify “recognized environmental conditions.” Recognized environmental conditions means the presence or likely presence of any hazardous substances or petroleum products on a property under conditions that indicate an existing release, a past release, or a material threat of a release of any hazardous substances or petroleum products into structures on the property or into the ground, groundwater, or surface water of the property. The term includes hazardous substances or petroleum products even under conditions in compliance with laws. The term is not intended to include de minimus conditions that generally would not be the subject of an enforcement action if brought to the attention of appropriate governmental agencies.
The ASTM standard indicates that a Phase I ESA should consist of four main components: 1) Records Review; 2) Site Reconnaissance; 3) Interviews; and 4) Report. The purpose of the records review is to obtain and review records that will help identify recognized environmental conditions in connection with the property. The site reconnaissance involves physical observation of the property’s exterior and interior, as well as an observation of adjoining properties. Interviews with previous and current owners and occupants, and local government officials provides insight into the presence or absence of recognized environmental conditions in connection with the property. The final component of the ESA, the report, contains the findings of the ESA and conclusions regarding the presence or absence of recognized environmental conditions in connection with the property. It includes documentation to support the analysis, opinions, and conclusions found in the report.
While the use of this practice is intended to constitute appropriate inquiry for purposes of CERCLA’s innocent landowner defense, it is not intended that its use be limited to that purpose. The ASTM standard is intended to be an approach to conducting an inquiry designed to identify recognized environmental conditions in connection with a property, and environmental site assessments.
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EXHIBIT F
FORM OF OPINION OF BORROWER’S COUNSEL
February 4, 2011
KeyBank National Association,
as Administrative Agent for the Lenders
120 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February 4, 2011 (the “Credit Agreement”) by and among Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maryland (the “Borrower”), KeyBank National Association, a national banking association, and the several banks, financial institutions and other entities from time to time parties to the Credit Agreement (collectively, the “Lenders”) and KeyBank National Association, not individually, but as “Administrative Agent”
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to the Borrower and the guarantors identified on Schedule 1, attached hereto and incorporated herein (each a “Subsidiary Guarantor”, and collectively the “Subsidiary Guarantors”), in connection with the Credit Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement.
We have reviewed the Credit Agreement, the Subsidiary Guaranty and the Notes (collectively, the “Loan Documents”).
For purposes hereof, we have made certain assumptions hereinafter described without independent verification. We have also assumed, without independent verification, that there are no facts inconsistent with the assumptions hereinafter set forth. We know of no facts inconsistent with such assumptions, but we have not conducted an independent investigation or verification.
The opinion set forth herein is qualified as stated herein and is qualified further by the following:
A.
This opinion is based upon existing laws, ordinances and regulations in effect as of the date hereof and as they presently apply.
B.
In rendering the opinion set forth below, we have relied as to matters of fact, upon (i) certificates or statements of public officials (including Certificates of Good Standing and
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Existence in Illinois and Maryland for Borrower each dated January 5, 2011, and the Certificate of Good Standing and Existence in Delaware or Illinois, as applicable, for each Subsidiary Guarantor as set forth on Schedule 1 hereof, the validity of which we assume remains unchanged as of the date hereof) and of officers of the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor and (ii) representations and warranties contained in the Loan Documents. Further, we have assumed that (a) each document submitted to us is accurate and complete, (b) there are no events, facts or circumstances currently and actually known to the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors or the Lenders which have not been disclosed to us to the extent such events, facts or circumstances would render any provision of the Loan Documents invalid or unenforceable in any material respect, and (c) there are and have been no agreements or understandings among the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Lenders, written or oral, and there is and has been no usage of trade or course of prior dealing among such parties that in either case would materially define, supplement, amend or qualify the terms of the Loan Documents so as to render inaccurate any opinion expressed herein. For purposes of rendering the first three opinions expressed below, we have relied exclusively upon certificates issued by governmental authorities in the relevant jurisdictions, and such opinions are not intended to provide any conclusion or assurance beyond that conveyed by such certificates.
C.
We express no opinion as to the enforceability, under certain circumstances, of provisions imposing penalties or forfeitures, late payment charges or an increase in interest rate upon delinquency in payment or the occurrence of a default.
D.
We express no opinion as to:
(i)
the existence of any Person’s ownership rights in or title to, the existence or priority of, any lien or with respect to any property;
(ii)
any agreement by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor to waive jury trial or appoint an agent for acceptance of service of process;
(iii)
any provision of the Loan Documents purporting to waive any objection to the laying of venue or any claim that an action or proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum; and
(iv)
any provision of the Loan Documents which authorizes or permits any purchaser of a participation interest from any party to set off or apply any deposit or property or any indebtedness with respect to any participation interest.
E.
We have assumed that (i) the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents are within the Lenders’ corporate powers; (ii) the Lenders, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors have been in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations governing and affecting the conduct of their respective businesses to the extent that non-compliance would have a material adverse effect on the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents; (iii) the Loan Documents will be enforced in good faith and in circumstances and in a manner that are commercially reasonable; (iv) the Lenders are not subject to any statute, rule or regulation or any impediment that requires them to obtain the authorization, approval or
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consent of, or to make any declaration or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body, or all of such authorizations, approvals or filings have been obtained or made, in connection with (A) the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents or (B) the due execution, delivery, recordation, consummation and undertaking of the performance of the Loan Documents or (C) the exercise of any rights and remedies under the Loan Documents; (v) all filings or actions necessary in connection with or for the effectiveness of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents with any governmental authority or regulatory body have been or will be made with the appropriate governmental authority or regulatory body and in accordance the requirements of all applicable laws, codes, ordinances and regulations (including without limitation the payment of all fees in connection therewith); and (vi) all material terms, provisions and conditions relating to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents are correctly and completely reflected in the Loan Documents.
F.
The opinion hereafter expressed is qualified to the extent that: (i) the characterization of, and the enforceability of any rights or remedies in, any agreement or instrument may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or transfer, equitable subordination, or similar laws and doctrines affecting the rights of creditors generally and general equitable principles; (ii) the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or any other equitable remedy is subject to the discretion of a court of competent jurisdiction; and (iii) the provisions of the Loan Documents that (a) may require indemnification or contribution with respect to the negligence or wrongful conduct of the indemnified party or its representatives or agents, (b) purports to confer, waive or consent to the jurisdiction of any court, or (c) waives any right granted by common or statutory law, may be unenforceable as against public policy.
G.
Requirements in the Loan Documents specifying that provisions thereof only may be waived in writing may not be valid, binding or enforceable to the extent that an oral agreement or an implied agreement by trade practice or course of conduct has been created modifying any provision of the Loan Documents.
H.
We express no opinion on provisions in the Loan Documents that provide for the waiver of the statute of limitations, waiver of the right to bring counterclaims, the appointment of any party as attorney-in-fact, the waiver of the right to assert lack of consideration, or the waiver of the requirements of good faith and fair dealing, notice and commercial reasonableness to the extent such requirements cannot be waived by consent. We further advise that the amount of attorneys’ fees are subject to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding involving the Loan Documents may be brought.
I.
We have not undertaken any independent review of the effect upon the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby of any applicable state or federal environmental, securities or taxation law, code or regulation, and we render no opinion with respect to any of the foregoing.
J.
We have assumed that: (i) each of the Lenders is duly organized and validly existing and in good standing under applicable state or federal laws; (ii) the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the undertaking of the performance by the Lenders of their
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respective obligations thereunder do not contravene (a) their organizational documents, including the articles of association and any amendments thereto, or Bylaws, including all amendments thereto, or (b) any law or contractual restriction affecting the Lenders or their respective properties; and (iii) there is no pending action or proceeding before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator against or directly involving the Lenders, and there is no threatened action or proceeding affecting the Lenders or any of the assets of the Lenders before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator which, in any case, would affect the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents.
K. Whenever our opinion, with respect to the existence or absence of facts, is qualified by the phrase “to our knowledge” or a phrase of similar import, it indicates that no information has come to the attention of Xxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq., the attorney who has provided substantive legal representation to the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors with respect to the Loan Documents, which would give us current actual knowledge that is inconsistent with the existence or absence of facts qualified by such phrase. However, except to the extent expressly set forth herein, we have not undertaken any independent investigation to determine, or otherwise attempted to verify, the existence or absence of such facts, and no inference as to our knowledge of the existence or absence of such facts should be drawn from the fact of our representation of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors or any other matter. Only the actual knowledge of the attorney who has worked on this matter for us as described above shall be imputed or ascribed to us in our capacity as counsel.
L.
We render no opinion with respect to the validity or enforceability under Illinois law of any provision of any of the Loan Documents which provides for the compounding of interest or the payment or accrual of interest on interest. Please note that the Illinois Supreme Court has held in Xxxxxx x. Xxxxx, 151 Ill. 37 (1894) and 137 Ill. 443 (1891) and its progeny that compounding of interest and charging interest on interest are contrary to the public policy of the State of Illinois.
We have investigated such questions of law as in our judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable us to render the opinion expressed below. In addition, we have assumed (i) the genuineness of the signatures of, and the authority of, persons signing all documents in connection with which this opinion is expressed other than the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, (ii) the legal capacity of natural persons, and (iii) that the Loan Documents constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of all parties thereto other than the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
Based upon the foregoing and subject to the assumptions, limitations and qualifications set forth herein, we are of the following opinion:
1.
The Borrower is a Maryland corporation, duly organized and validly existing and authorized to transact business under the laws of the State of Maryland and is qualified to transact business in the State of Illinois. Each Subsidiary Guarantor identified in numbers 1 through 33, inclusive, on Schedule 1 hereof, is a limited liability company, duly organized and validly existing and authorized to transact business under the laws of the State of Delaware. Each Subsidiary Guarantor identified in numbers 34 through 37, inclusive, on Schedule 1
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hereof, is a limited partnership, duly formed and validly existing and authorized to transact business under the laws of the State of Illinois. The Subsidiary Guarantor identified in number 38 on Schedule 1 hereof, is a statutory trust, duly formed and validly existing and authorized to transaction business under the laws of the State of Delaware.
2.
The execution, delivery and undertaking of performance by the Borrower and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents to which it is a party are within the corporate powers of the Borrower, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action (including any necessary shareholder or stockholder action, if any) of the Borrower, and do not and will not (a) conflict with or result in a breach of any of the provisions of the certificate or articles of incorporation or certificate of existence, as applicable, and bylaws of the Borrower, or (b) to our knowledge, result in a breach or violation of or constitute a default under (x) any contractual obligation to which the Borrower is a party or by which the Borrower or its properties are bound or (y) any writ, order, judgment or decree of any governmental authority or (z) any law, regulation, ruling or order binding on the Borrower.
3.
The execution, delivery and undertaking of performance by the Subsidiary Guarantors and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Subsidiary Guaranty are within the corporate, company or trust powers of the Subsidiary Guarantors, as applicable, have been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company, partnership or trust action, as applicable (including any necessary member, manager, partner or trustee action, if any), of the Subsidiary Guarantors, and do not and will not (a) conflict with or result in a breach of any of the provisions of the articles of formation, limited partnership certificate, certificate of trust or certificate of existence, as applicable, and operating agreement, limited partnership agreement or trust agreement of any Subsidiary Guarantor, as applicable, or (b) to our knowledge, result in a breach or violation of or constitute a default under (x) any contractual obligation to which any Subsidiary Guarantor is a party or by which any Subsidiary Guarantor or its properties are bound, other than the Credit Agreement, or (y) any writ, order, judgment or decree of any governmental authority or (z) any law, regulation, ruling or order binding on any Subsidiary Guarantor.
4.
The Borrower has duly executed and delivered the Loan Documents to which it is a named party. The Loan Documents constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Borrower, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms.
5.
The Subsidiary Guarantors have duly executed and delivered the Subsidiary Guaranty. The Subsidiary Guaranty constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Subsidiary Guarantors, enforceable in accordance with its terms.
6.
To our knowledge, no authorization, consent or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or other Person is required to be obtained or made by the Borrower for the due execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the Loan Documents to which it is a named party, except such as have been duly obtained or made and are in full force and effect.
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7.
Based solely upon a search of our docket and the representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in the Loan Documents
, there are no actions, suits, or proceedings pending or threatened against the Borrower before any court or governmental entity or instrumentality which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Credit Agreement).
8.
The Loan Documents are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, and the Loan, including the interest rate reserved in the Notes and all fees and charges paid or to be paid by or on behalf of Borrower in connection with such Loan pursuant to the applicable Loan Documents, is not in violation of the usury laws of the State of Illinois.
While we are not members of the Bar of the State of Maryland or the Bar of the State of Delaware, we have reviewed provisions of the Maryland General Corporation Law (the “Maryland Corporation Law”), the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the “Delaware LLC Act”) and the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the “DST Act”). We are members of the Bar of the State of Illinois, and we express no opinion herein as to any laws, codes, ordinances or regulations or the effects thereof upon the Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby, other than the Maryland Corporation Law (as to the organization and existence of the Borrower under the laws of the State of Maryland) and the Delaware LLC Act and the DST Act (together, as to the organization and existence of the Subsidiary Guarantors under the laws of the State of Delaware, as applicable), the laws, codes, ordinances and regulations of the State of Illinois and the federal laws of the United States of America. The opinions expressed herein are limited in all respects to applicable law as existing on the date hereof. In rendering this opinion, we do not undertake to advise you of any change in any applicable law or any fact that may occur after the date hereof.
[Signature page follows]
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We call your attention to the fact that, although we represent the Borrower in connection with the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, our engagement has been limited to specific matters as to which we have been consulted. This opinion is limited to the matters stated herein, and we do not express any opinion, either implicitly or otherwise, on any issue not expressly addressed herein. We disavow any obligation to update or supplement this opinion in response to subsequent changes in the law or future events or circumstances or to advise you of any changes in our opinion in the event additional or newly discovered information is brought to our attention. This opinion is provided to you as a legal opinion only and not as a guaranty or warranty of the matters discussed herein or in the documents referred to herein. No opinion may be inferred or implied beyond the matters expressly stated herein, and no portion of this opinion may be quoted or in any other way published without the prior written consent of the undersigned. Further, this opinion may be relied upon only by the addressee hereof. Without our prior written consent, this opinion may not be: (a) relied upon by you for any purpose other than that stated and set forth in this opinion; or (b) relied upon by any other person or entity for any purpose other than permitted successors, assigns and participants under the Loan Documents.
Very truly yours,
XXXXX & XXXXX, LLC
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Schedule 1
Subsidiary Guarantors
Entity Name | Certificates of Good Standing |
1. Inland Western Atlanta Cascade Avenue, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 24, 2011 Georgia – January 24, 2011 |
2. Inland Western Iowa City Alexander, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 24, 2011 Iowa – January 24, 2011 |
3. Inland Western Mesa Fiesta, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 24, 2011 Arizona – January 24, 2011 |
4. Inland Western New Britain Main, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 24, 2011 Connecticut – January 24, 2011 |
5. Inland Western Xxxxxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, L.L.C, a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 24, 2011 Arizona – January 24, 2011 |
6. Inland Western RC-I GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 20, 2011 |
7. Inland Western RC-I LP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 20, 2011 |
8. Inland Western Stockton Airport Way II, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 7, 2011 California – January 7, 2011 |
9. Inland Western Hartford New Park, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Connecticut – January 5, 2011 |
10. Inland Western Cave Creek Xxxxx Boulevard, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Arizona – January 6, 2011 |
11. Inland Western Green Global Gateway, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Ohio – January 5, 2011 |
12. Inland Western Greenville Five Forks Outlot, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 South Carolina – January 14, 2011 |
13. Inland Western Greenville Five Forks, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 South Carolina – January 14, 2011 |
14. Inland Western Oswego Xxxxx Centennial, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Illinois – January 5, 2011 |
15. Inland Western Altamonte Springs State Road, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Florida – January 5, 2011 |
16. Inland Western Phillipsburg Greenwich, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 New Jersey – January 5, 2011 |
17. Inland Western Maple Grove Wedgwood, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Minnesota – January 5, 2011 |
18. Inland Western Concord Northlite, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 North Carolina – January 5, 2011 |
19. Inland Western Georgetown Magnolia, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Kentucky – January 5, 2011 |
20. Inland Western Town and Country Manchester, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Missouri – January 5, 2011 |
21. Inland Western Thousand Oaks, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 California – January 5, 2011 |
22. Inland Western Gilroy I, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 California – January 6, 2011 |
23. Inland Western Fort Xxxxx Page Field, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Florida – January 5, 2011 |
24. Inland Western Ottawa Dayton, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Illinois – January 5, 2011 |
25. Inland Western Kalamazoo WMU, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Michigan – January 5, 2011 |
26. Inland Western Cambridge Brick Church, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Ohio – January 5, 2011 |
27. Inland Western Westerville Cleveland, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Ohio – January 5, 2011 |
28. Inland Western Kansas City Stateline, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Missouri – January 5, 2011 |
29. Inland Western Temecula Commons, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 California – January 6, 2011 |
30. Xxxxxx Commons, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Pennsylvania – January 6, 2011 |
31. Inland Western Blytheville, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Arkansas – January 5, 2011 |
32. Inland Western San Antonio Fountainhead Drive Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | Illinois – January 25, 2011 Texas – January 24, 2011 |
33. Inland Western Grand Prairie Carrier Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | Illinois – January 5, 2011 Texas – January 5, 2011 |
34. Inland Western Austin Southpark Xxxxxxx II Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | Illinois – January 5, 2011 Texas – January 6, 2011 |
35. Inland Western Fort Worth Southwest Crossing Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | Illinois – January 5, 2011 Texas – January 6, 2011 |
36. Inland Western State College Science Park DST, a Delaware statutory trust | Delaware – January 5, 2011 Pennsylvania – January 6, 2011 |
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EXHIBIT G
BORROWING NOTICE
Date:
KeyBank National Association
Real Estate Capital
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxx
Borrowing Notice
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc. hereby requests a Loan Advance pursuant to Section 2.9 of the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February 4, 2011 (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc., the Lenders referenced therein, and you, as Agent for the Lenders.
An Advance is requested to be made in the amount of $__________, to be made on _____________. Such Loan shall be a [LIBOR] [Floating] [Swingline] Rate Advance. [The applicable LIBOR Interest Period shall be _____________.]
The proceeds of this Advance will be used either: (check one)
(i)
to refinance the Original Credit Agreement
(ii)
for working capital purposes,
(iii)
for bridge debt financing purposes,
(iv)
for the development or redevelopment of the following Project, including tenant
improvements, capital expenditures or leasing commissions related thereto, or
(v)
for the acquisition of the following Project:
Name of Project:
Address of Project:
Description of Project:
For further information see Schedule I and the one page Project summary attached to this Borrowing Notice.
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The proceeds of the requested Advance shall be directed to the following account:
Wiring Instructions:
(Bank Name)
(ABA No.)
(Beneficiary)
(Account No. to Credit)
(Notification Requirement)
In support of this request, Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc. hereby represents and warrants to the Agent and the Lenders that all requirements of Section 4.2 of the Credit Agreement in connection with such Advance have been satisfied at the time such proceeds are disbursed.
Date:_________________________________
For Borrower: Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc.
By:
_________________________________
Name:
_________________________________
Its:
_________________________________
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EXHIBIT H
AMENDED AND RESTATED SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY
This Amended and Restated Subsidiary Guaranty is made as of February 4, 2011 by the parties identified in the signature pages thereto, and any Joinder to Guaranty hereafter delivered (collectively, the “Subsidiary Guarantors”), to and for the benefit of KeyBank National Association, individually (“KeyBank”) and as administrative agent (“Administrative Agent”) for itself and the lenders under the Credit Agreement (as defined below) and their respective successors and assigns (collectively, the “Lenders”).
RECITALS
A.
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maryland (“Borrower”), and Subsidiary Guarantors have requested that the Lenders make a combined term loan and revolving credit facility available to Borrower in an aggregate principal amount of $585,000,000, subject to possible future increase to an aggregate of $650,000,000 (the “Facility”).
B.
The Lenders have agreed to make available the Facility to Borrower pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated of even date herewith among Borrower, KeyBank, individually, and as Administrative Agent, and the Lenders named therein (as amended, modified or restated from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”). All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
C.
Borrower has executed and delivered or will execute and deliver to the Lenders promissory notes in the principal amount of each Lender’s Commitment and promissory notes in the principal amount, if any, of each Lender’s Loan as evidence of Borrower’s indebtedness to each such Lender with respect to the Facility (the promissory notes described above, together with any amendments or allonges thereto, or restatements, replacements or renewals thereof, and/or new promissory notes to new Lenders under the Credit Agreement, are collectively referred to herein as the “Notes”).
D.
Subsidiary Guarantors are subsidiaries of Borrower. Subsidiary Guarantors acknowledge that the extension of credit by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement will benefit Subsidiary Guarantors by making funds available to Subsidiary Guarantors through Borrower and by enhancing the financial strength of the consolidated group of which Subsidiary Guarantors and Borrower are members. The execution and delivery of this Guaranty by Subsidiary Guarantors are conditions precedent to the performance by the Lenders of their obligations under the Credit Agreement.
E.
This Guaranty amends and restates in its entirety that certain Subsidiary Guaranty dated as of April 17, 2009 made by certain of the Guarantors for the benefit of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders party to the Original Credit Agreement. This Guaranty constitutes an amendment and restatement of such prior Subsidiary Guaranty and not a novation, and the parties intend that all amounts guarantied thereunder shall continue to be
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guarantied hereunder until repaid, and that the obligations of those Subsidiary Guarantors who were parties to such prior Subsidiary Guaranty with respect to the Borrower’s obligations under the Original Credit Agreement and are continuing as Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder shall continue in effect and relate back to the date such obligations were first undertaken, as such obligations may be expressly amended and restated hereunder.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, Subsidiary Guarantors, in consideration of the matters described in the foregoing Recitals, which Recitals are incorporated herein and made a part hereof, and for other good and valuable consideration, hereby agree as follows:
1.
Subsidiary Guarantors absolutely, unconditionally, and irrevocably guaranty to each of the Lenders:
(a)
the full and prompt payment of the principal of and interest on the Notes when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, and the prompt payment of all sums which may now be or may hereafter become due and owing under the Notes, the Credit Agreement, and the other Loan Documents;
(b)
the payment of all Enforcement Costs (as hereinafter defined in Paragraph 7 hereof); and
(c)
the full, complete, and punctual observance, performance, and satisfaction of all of the obligations, duties, covenants, and agreements of Borrower under the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents.
All amounts due, debts, liabilities, and payment obligations described in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of this Paragraph 1 are referred to herein as the “Facility Indebtedness.” All obligations described in subparagraph (c) of this Paragraph 1 are referred to herein as the “Obligations.” Subsidiary Guarantors and Lenders agree that Subsidiary Guarantors’ obligations hereunder shall not exceed the greater of: (i) the aggregate amount of all monies received, directly or indirectly, by Subsidiary Guarantors from Borrower after the date hereof (whether by loan, capital infusion or other means), or (ii) the maximum amount of the Facility Indebtedness not subject to avoidance under Title 11 of the United States Code, as same may be amended from time to time, or any applicable state law (the “Bankruptcy Code”). To that end, to the extent such obligations would otherwise be subject to avoidance under the Bankruptcy Code if Subsidiary Guarantors are not deemed to have received valuable consideration, fair value or reasonably equivalent value for its obligations hereunder, each Subsidiary Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be reduced to that amount which, after giving effect thereto, would not render such Subsidiary Guarantor insolvent, or leave such Subsidiary Guarantor with an unreasonably small capital to conduct its business, or cause such Subsidiary Guarantor to have incurred debts (or intended to have incurred debts) beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature, as such terms are determined, and at the time such obligations are deemed to have been incurred, under the Bankruptcy Code. In the event a Subsidiary Guarantor shall make any
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payment or payments under this Guaranty each other Subsidiary Guarantor of the Facility Indebtedness shall contribute to such Subsidiary Guarantor an amount equal to such non-paying Subsidiary Guarantor’s pro rata share (based on their respective maximum liabilities hereunder) of such payment or payments made by such Subsidiary Guarantor, provided that such contribution right shall be subordinate and junior in right of payment in full of all the Facility Indebtedness to Lenders. Subsidiary Guarantors and Lenders further agree that Subsidiary Guarantors’ obligations hereunder with regard to the Facility Obligations shall be determined in accordance with the terms hereof and Subsidiary Guarantors’ obligations hereunder are not intended to be determined by or subject to the definition of “Guarantee Obligations” in the Credit Agreement.
2.
In the event of any default by Borrower in making payment of the Facility Indebtedness, or in performance of the Obligations, as aforesaid, in each case beyond the expiration of any applicable grace period, Subsidiary Guarantors agree, on demand by the Administrative Agent or the holder of a Note, to pay all the Facility Indebtedness and to perform all the Obligations as are then or thereafter become due and owing or are to be performed under the terms of the Notes, the Credit Agreement, and the other Loan Documents.
3.
Subsidiary Guarantors do hereby waive (i) notice of acceptance of this Guaranty by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and any and all notices and demands of every kind which may be required to be given by any statute, rule or law, (ii) any defense, right of set-off or other claim which Subsidiary Guarantors may have against Borrower or which Subsidiary Guarantors or Borrower may have against the Administrative Agent or the Lenders or the holder of a Note, (iii) presentment for payment, demand for payment (other than as provided for in Paragraph 2 above), notice of nonpayment (other than as provided for in Paragraph 2 above) or dishonor, protest and notice of protest, diligence in collection and any and all formalities which otherwise might be legally required to charge Subsidiary Guarantors with liability, (iv) any failure by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to inform Subsidiary Guarantors of any facts the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may now or hereafter know about Borrower, the Facility, or the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement, it being understood and agreed that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have no duty so to inform and that Subsidiary Guarantors are fully responsible for being and remaining informed by Borrower of all circumstances bearing on the existence or creation, or the risk of nonpayment of the Facility Indebtedness or the risk of nonperformance of the Obligations, (v) any and all right to cause a marshalling of assets of Borrower or any other action by any court or governmental body with respect thereto, or to cause the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to proceed against any other security given to a Lender in connection with the Facility Indebtedness or the Obligations, (vi) any invalidity or unenforceability of the Facility Indebtedness, (vii) any amendment or waiver of the Facility Indebtedness, including without limitation any of the actions described in Paragraph 4 below, and (viii) any failure to perfect any security interest in the Collateral securing the Facility Indebtedness or any release of such Collateral, including without limitation any of the actions with respect to the Collateral described in Paragraph 4 below. Credit may be granted or continued from time to time by the Lenders to Borrower without notice to or authorization from Subsidiary Guarantors, regardless of the financial or other condition of Borrower at the time of any such grant or continuation. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have no
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obligation to disclose or discuss with Subsidiary Guarantors the Lenders’ assessment of the financial condition of Borrower. Subsidiary Guarantors acknowledge that no representations of any kind whatsoever have been made by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to Subsidiary Guarantors. No modification or waiver of any of the provisions of this Guaranty shall be binding upon the Administrative Agent and the Lenders except as expressly set forth in a writing duly signed and delivered on behalf of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders. Subsidiary Guarantors further agree that any exculpatory language contained in the Credit Agreement, the Notes, and the other Loan Documents shall in no event apply to this Guaranty, and will not prevent the Administrative Agent and the Lenders from proceeding against Subsidiary Guarantors to enforce this Guaranty.
4.
Subsidiary Guarantors further agree that Subsidiary Guarantors’ liability as guarantor shall in no way be impaired by any renewals or extensions which may be made from time to time, with or without the knowledge or consent of Subsidiary Guarantors of the time for payment of interest or principal under a Note or by any forbearance or delay in collecting interest or principal under a Note, or by any waiver by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the Credit Agreement, or any other Loan Documents, or by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders’ failure or election not to pursue any other remedies they may have against Borrower, or by any change or modification in a Note, the Credit Agreement, or any other Loan Documents, or by the acceptance by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders of any security or any increase, substitution or change therein, or by the release by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders of any security or any withdrawal thereof or decrease therein, or by the application of payments received from any source to the payment of any obligation other than the Facility Indebtedness, even though a Lender might lawfully have elected to apply such payments to any part or all of the Facility Indebtedness, it being the intent hereof that Subsidiary Guarantors shall remain liable as principal for payment of the Facility Indebtedness and performance of the Obligations until all indebtedness has been paid in full and the other terms, covenants and conditions of the Credit Agreement, and other Loan Documents and this Guaranty have been performed, notwithstanding any act or thing which might otherwise operate as a legal or equitable discharge of a surety. Subsidiary Guarantors further understand and agree that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may at any time enter into agreements with Borrower to amend and modify a Note, the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or any other documents related thereto, and may waive or release any provision or provisions of a Note, the Credit Agreement, or any other Loan Document and, with reference to such instruments, may make and enter into any such agreement or agreements as the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and Borrower may deem proper and desirable, without in any manner impairing this Guaranty or any of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders’ rights hereunder or any of Subsidiary Guarantors’ obligations hereunder. Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors agrees not to assert any claim any claim against the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any of their respective Affiliates, or any of their or their respective Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to any facility hereunder, the actual or proposed use of the Loans or any Letter of Credit, the Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby.
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5.
This is an absolute, unconditional, complete, present and continuing guaranty of payment and performance and not of collection. Subsidiary Guarantors agree that its obligations hereunder shall be joint and several with any and all other guarantees given in connection with the Facility from time to time. Subsidiary Guarantors agree that this Guaranty may be enforced by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders without the necessity at any time of resorting to or exhausting any security or collateral, if any, given in connection herewith or with a Note, the Credit Agreement, or any of the other Loan Documents or by or resorting to any other guaranties, and Subsidiary Guarantors hereby waive the right to require the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to join Borrower in any action brought hereunder or to commence any action against or obtain any judgment against Borrower or to pursue any other remedy or enforce any other right. Subsidiary Guarantors further agree that nothing contained herein or otherwise shall prevent the Administrative Agent and the Lenders from pursuing concurrently or successively all rights and remedies available to them at law and/or in equity or under a Note, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Documents, and the exercise of any of their rights or the completion of any of their remedies shall not constitute a discharge of any of Subsidiary Guarantors’ obligations hereunder, it being the purpose and intent of Subsidiary Guarantors that the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder shall be primary, absolute, independent and unconditional under any and all circumstances whatsoever. Neither Subsidiary Guarantors’ obligations under this Guaranty nor any remedy for the enforcement thereof shall be impaired, modified, changed or released in any manner whatsoever by any impairment, modification, change, release or limitation of the liability of Borrower under a Note, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or by reason of Borrower’s bankruptcy or by reason of any creditor or bankruptcy proceeding instituted by or against Borrower. This Guaranty shall continue to be effective and be deemed to have continued in existence or be reinstated (as the case may be) if at any time payment of all or any part of any sum payable pursuant to a Note, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document is rescinded or otherwise required to be returned by the payee upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, or reorganization of the payor, all as though such payment to such Lender had not been made, regardless of whether such Lender contested the order requiring the return of such payment. The obligations of Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to the preceding sentence shall survive any termination, cancellation, or release of this Guaranty.
6.
This Guaranty shall be assignable by a Lender to any assignee of all or a portion of such Lender’s rights under the Loan Documents.
7.
If: (i) this Guaranty, a Note, or any of the Loan Documents are placed in the hands of an attorney for collection or is collected through any legal proceeding; (ii) an attorney is retained to represent the Administrative Agent or any Lender in any bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership, or other proceedings affecting creditors’ rights and involving a claim under this Guaranty, a Note, the Credit Agreement, or any Loan Document; (iii) an attorney is retained to enforce any of the other Loan Documents or to provide advice or other representation with respect to the Loan Documents in connection with an enforcement action or potential enforcement action; or (iv) an attorney is retained to represent the Administrative Agent or any Lender in any other legal proceedings whatsoever in connection with this Guaranty, a Note, the Credit Agreement, any of the Loan Documents, or any property subject thereto (other than any
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action or proceeding brought by any Lender or participant against the Administrative Agent alleging a breach by the Administrative Agent of its duties under the Loan Documents), then Subsidiary Guarantors shall pay to the Administrative Agent or such Lender upon demand all reasonable attorney’s fees, costs and expenses, including, without limitation, court costs, filing fees and all other costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith (all of which are referred to herein as “Enforcement Costs”), in addition to all other amounts due hereunder.
8.
The parties hereto intend that each provision in this Guaranty comports with all applicable local, state and federal laws and judicial decisions. However, if any provision or provisions, or if any portion of any provision or provisions, in this Guaranty is found by a court of law to be in violation of any applicable local, state or federal ordinance, statute, law, administrative or judicial decision, or public policy, and if such court should declare such portion, provision or provisions of this Guaranty to be illegal, invalid, unlawful, void or unenforceable as written, then it is the intent of all parties hereto that such portion, provision or provisions shall be given force to the fullest possible extent that they are legal, valid and enforceable, that the remainder of this Guaranty shall be construed as if such illegal, invalid, unlawful, void or unenforceable portion, provision or provisions were not contained therein, and that the rights, obligations and interest of the Administrative Agent and the Lender or the holder of a Note under the remainder of this Guaranty shall continue in full force and effect.
9.
Any indebtedness of Borrower to Subsidiary Guarantors now or hereafter existing is hereby subordinated to the Facility Indebtedness. Subsidiary Guarantors will not seek, accept, or retain for Subsidiary Guarantors’ own account, any payment from Borrower on account of such subordinated debt at any time when a Default or Event of Default exists under the Credit Agreement or the Loan Documents, and any such payments to Subsidiary Guarantors made while any Default or Event of Default then exists under the Credit Agreement or the Loan Documents on account of such subordinated debt shall be collected and received by Subsidiary Guarantors in trust for the Lenders and shall be paid over to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders on account of the Facility Indebtedness without impairing or releasing the obligations of Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder.
10.
Subsidiary Guarantors hereby subordinate to the Facility Indebtedness any and all claims and rights, including, without limitation, subrogation rights, contribution rights, reimbursement rights and set-off rights, which Subsidiary Guarantors may have against Borrower arising from a payment made by Subsidiary Guarantors under this Guaranty and agree that, until the entire Facility Indebtedness is paid in full, not to assert or take advantage of any subrogation rights of Subsidiary Guarantors or the Lenders or any right of Subsidiary Guarantors or the Lenders to proceed against (i) Borrower for reimbursement, or (ii) any other guarantor or any collateral security or guaranty or right of offset held by the Lenders for the payment of the Facility Indebtedness and performance of the Obligations, nor shall Subsidiary Guarantors seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from Borrower or any other guarantor in respect of payments made by Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder. It is expressly understood that the agreements of Subsidiary Guarantors set forth above constitute additional and cumulative benefits given to the Lenders for their security and as an inducement for their extension of credit to Borrower.
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11.
Any amounts received by a Lender from any source on account of any indebtedness may be applied by such Lender toward the payment of such indebtedness, and in such order of application, as a Lender may from time to time elect.
12.
Subsidiary Guarantors hereby submit to personal jurisdiction in the State of Illinois for the enforcement of this Guaranty and waive any and all personal rights to object to such jurisdiction for the purposes of litigation to enforce this Guaranty. Subsidiary Guarantors hereby consent to the jurisdiction of either the Circuit Court of Xxxx County, Illinois, or the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in any action, suit, or proceeding which the Administrative Agent or a Lender may at any time wish to file in connection with this Guaranty or any related matter. Subsidiary Guarantors hereby agree that an action, suit, or proceeding to enforce this Guaranty may be brought in any state or federal court in the State of Illinois and hereby waives any objection which Subsidiary Guarantors may have to the laying of the venue of any such action, suit, or proceeding in any such court; provided, however, that the provisions of this Paragraph shall not be deemed to preclude the Administrative Agent or a Lender from filing any such action, suit, or proceeding in any other appropriate forum.
13.
All notices and other communications provided to any party hereto under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be in writing or by telex or by facsimile and addressed or delivered to such party at its address set forth below or at such other address as may be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties. Any notice, if mailed and properly addressed with postage prepaid, shall be deemed given when received; any notice, if transmitted by facsimile, shall be deemed given when transmitted. Notice may be given as follows:
To Subsidiary Guarantors:
c/o Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
With a copy to:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
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To KeyBank as Administrative Agent and as a Lender:
KeyBank National Association
KeyBank Real Estate Capital
0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx XX, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Phone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
With a copy to:
SNR Xxxxxx LLP
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 312-876-7934
If to any other Lender, to its address set forth in the Credit Agreement.
14.
This Guaranty shall be binding upon the heirs, executors, legal and personal representatives, successors and assigns of Subsidiary Guarantors and shall inure to the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders’ successors and assigns.
15.
This Guaranty shall be construed and enforced under the internal laws of the State of Illinois.
16.
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS, BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, EACH HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE OR DEFEND ANY RIGHT UNDER THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR RELATING THERETO OR ARISING FROM THE LENDING RELATIONSHIP WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS GUARANTY AND AGREE THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY.
17.
Neither the execution and delivery by the Subsidiary Guarantors of this Guaranty, nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement, nor compliance with the provisions thereof will violate any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or award binding on any of the Subsidiary Guarantors or their respective articles of organization, articles of formation, certificates of trust, limited partnership certificates, operating agreements, trust agreements, or limited partnership agreements, or the provisions of any indenture, instrument or agreement to which any of the Subsidiary Guarantors is a party or is subject, or by which it, or its Property, is bound, or conflict with or constitute a default thereunder, except where such violation, conflict or default would not have a Material Adverse Effect, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien (other the Liens created
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pursuant to the Credit Agreement) in, of or on the Property of such Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, instrument or agreement. No order, consent, approval, license, authorization, or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with, or exemption by, any governmental or public body or authority, or any subdivision thereof, is required to authorize, or is required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of, or the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of, this Guaranty.
18.
From time to time, additional parties may execute a joinder substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, and thereby become a party to this Guaranty. From and after delivery of such joinder, the Subsidiary delivering such joinder shall be a Subsidiary Guarantor, and be bound by all of the terms and provisions of this Guaranty. From time to time certain Subsidiary Guarantors shall automatically be released from their obligations under this Guaranty upon satisfaction of the conditions to such release established pursuant to Section 6.27 of the Credit Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Subsidiary Guarantors have delivered this Guaranty in the State of Illinois as of the date first written above.
INLAND WESTERN ATLANTA CASCADE AVENUE, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN IOWA CITY ALEXANDER, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
Member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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INLAND WESTERN MESA FIESTA, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
Member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN NEW BRITAIN MAIN, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
Member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX WESTERN XXXXXXX 00XX XXXXXX, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
Member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN RC-I GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN RC-I LP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate
Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX WESTERN SAN ANTONIO FOUNTAINHEAD DRIVE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Illinois limited partnership
By:
Inland Western San Antonio Fountainhead
Drive GP, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability
company, its general partner
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate
Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation,
its sole member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN GRAND PRAIRIE CARRIER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Illinois limited partnership
By:
Inland Western Grand Prairie Carrier GP,
L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company,
its general partner
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate
Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation,
its sole member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXX II, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN HARTFORD NEW PARK, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXX, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN GREEN GLOBAL GATEWAY, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN GREENVILLE FIVE FORKS OUTLOT, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX FIVE FORKS, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN OSWEGO XXXXX CENTENNIAL, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN ALTAMONTE SPRINGS STATE ROAD, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN MAPLE GROVE WEDGWOOD, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN CONCORD NORTHLITE, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX MAGNOLIA, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN TOWN AND COUNTRY MANCHESTER, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN THOUSAND OAKS, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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INLAND WESTERN GILROY I, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN FORT XXXXX PAGE FIELD, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX DAYTON, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN STATE COLLEGE SCIENCE PARK DST, a Delaware statutory trust
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its depositor
and signatory trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN KALAMAZOO WMU, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX BRICK CHURCH, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
TOWN SQUARE VENTURES V, L.P., a Texas limited partnership
By:
Town Square Ventures V GP, L.L.C., a
Delaware limited liability company, its
general partner
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate
Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation,
its sole member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX II LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Illinois limited partnership
By:
Inland Western Austin Southpark Xxxxxxx
II GP, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability
company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate
Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation,
its sole member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN FORT WORTH SOUTHWEST CROSSING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Illinois limited partnership
By:
Inland Western Fort Worth Southwest
Crossing GP, L.L.C., a Delaware limited
liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate
Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation,
its sole member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN KANSAS CITY STATELINE, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN TEMECULA COMMONS, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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XXXXXX COMMONS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
INLAND WESTERN BLYTHEVILLE, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust,
Inc., a Maryland corporation, its sole
member
By:
Name:
Title:
FEIN: 00-0000000
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EXHIBIT A TO SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY
FORM OF JOINDER TO GUARANTY
THIS JOINDER is executed as of ___________, 20__ by the undersigned, each of which hereby agrees as follows:
1.
All capitalized terms used herein and not defined in this Joinder shall have the meanings provided in that certain Amended and Restated Subsidiary Guaranty (the “Guaranty”) dated as of February 4, 2011 executed for the benefit of KeyBank National Association, as agent for itself and certain other lenders, with respect to a loan from the Lenders to Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc. (“Borrower”).
2.
As required by the Credit Agreement described in the Guaranty, each of the undersigned is executing this Joinder to become a party to the Guaranty.
3.
Each and every term, condition, representation, warranty, and other provision of the Guaranty, by this reference, is incorporated herein as if set forth herein in full and the undersigned agrees to fully and timely perform each and every obligation of a Subsidiary Guarantor under such Guaranty.
[INSERT SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR SIGNATURE BLOCKS AND FEIN NUMBER]
FEIN NO. ______________________
By:
By:
Its:
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EXHIBIT I
FORM OF MORTGAGE
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MORTGAGE
MADE BY
INLAND WESTERN [ ], L.L.C.,
a [Delaware limited liability company],
as Mortgagor
to
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent for itself
and one or more Lenders,
as Mortgagee
Dated as of: [ , 2011]
[If applicable, add legend limiting maximum principal
liability of Mortgagor as needed to address state mortgage tax.]
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MORTGAGE,
ASSIGNMENT OF RENTS, SECURITY AGREEMENT AND
FIXTURE FILING
Project Commonly Known As
[“ ”]
THIS MORTGAGE, ASSIGNMENT OF RENTS, SECURITY AGREEMENT AND FIXTURE FILING (this “Mortgage”) is made as of [_____________ __, 2011], by INLAND WESTERN [________________________], L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Mortgagor”) whose address is c/o Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc., 0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, for the benefit of KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Mortgagee”) for itself and one or more Lenders (as defined in the Credit Agreement described below), whose address is 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000.
1.
Grant and Secured Obligations.
1.1
Grant. Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maryland (the “Borrower”), KeyBank National Association, individually and as administrative agent, and certain other lenders are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February __, 2011 (the “Credit Agreement”). All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Credit Agreement. Borrower has executed and delivered to the Lenders certain promissory notes and may in the future execute and deliver to the Lenders additional promissory notes (the promissory notes, made in favor of the Lenders, together with any amendments or allonges thereto, or restatements, replacements or renewals thereof, or new promissory notes to new Lenders under the Credit Agreement, are collectively referred to herein as the “Notes”), in and by which the Borrower promises to pay the principal of all Loans under such Credit Agreement and interest at the rate and in installments as provided in the Credit Agreement, with a final payment of the outstanding principal balance and accrued and unpaid interest being due on or before an initial maturity date of February ___, 2013, subject to extension to a final maturity date of February ___, 2014 in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. Mortgagor has guaranteed payment and performance of Borrower’s obligations under the Notes and the Credit Agreement pursuant to an Amended and Restated Subsidiary Guaranty (the “Guaranty”) dated as of February __, 2011. The maximum aggregate principal amount of the Loans evidenced by the Notes shall be $585,000,000, subject to increase up to $650,000,000. The indebtedness secured hereby shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement.
In consideration of the debt evidenced by the Notes and the Commitments evidenced by the Credit Agreement and to secure the timely payment of both principal and interest in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Notes and the Guaranty and in accordance with the terms, provisions and limitations of this Mortgage, to secure the payment of any and all amounts advanced by the Mortgagee with respect to the Premises for the payment of taxes, assessments, insurance premiums or any other costs incurred in the protection of the Premises,
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and to secure the performance of the covenants and agreements contained herein and in the Notes, the Credit Agreement, the Guaranty, the Security Documents and any other documents evidencing or securing the loans secured hereby or delivered to Mortgagee pursuant to the Credit Agreement (collectively, the “Loan Documents”) to be performed by Borrower or any Guarantor, and for the purpose of securing payment and performance of the Secured Obligations defined and described in Section 1.2 below, Mortgagor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally grants, bargains, sells, conveys, mortgages and warrants to Mortgagee, with power of sale and with right of entry and possession, all estate, right, title and interest which Mortgagor now has or may later acquire in and to the following property (all or any part of such property, or any interest in all or any part of it, as the context may require, the “Property”):
(a)
The real property described in Exhibit A, together with all existing and future easements and rights affording access to it (the “Premises”); together with
(b)
All buildings, structures and improvements now located or later to be constructed on the Premises (the “Improvements”); together with
(c)
All existing and future appurtenances, privileges, easements, franchises and tenements of the Premises, including all minerals, oil, gas, other hydrocarbons and associated substances, sulphur, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, helium and other commercially valuable substances which may be in, under or produced from any part of the Premises, all development rights and credits, air rights, water, water rights (whether riparian, appropriative or otherwise, and whether or not appurtenant) and water stock, and any Premises lying in the streets, roads or avenues, open or proposed, in front of or adjoining the Premises and Improvements; together with
(d)
All existing and future leases, subleases, subtenancies, licenses, occupancy agreements and concessions (“Leases”) relating to the use and enjoyment of all or any part of the Premises and Improvements, and any and all guaranties and other agreements relating to or made in connection with any of such Leases; together with
(e)
All real property and improvements on it, and all appurtenances and other property and interests of any kind or character, whether described in Exhibit A or not, which may be reasonably necessary or desirable to promote the present and any reasonable future beneficial use and enjoyment of the Premises and Improvements; together with
(f)
All goods, materials, supplies, chattels, furniture, fixtures, equipment and machinery now or later to be attached to, placed in or on, or used in connection with the use, enjoyment, occupancy or operation of all or any part of the Premises and Improvements, whether stored on the Premises or elsewhere, including all pumping plants, engines, pipes, ditches and flumes, and also all gas, electric, cooking, heating, cooling, air conditioning, lighting, refrigeration and plumbing fixtures and equipment, all of which shall be considered to the fullest extent of the law to be real property for purposes of this Mortgage and any manufacturer’s warranties with respect thereto; together with
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(g)
All building materials, equipment, work in process or other personal property of any kind, whether stored on the Premises or elsewhere, which have been or later will be acquired for the purpose of being delivered to, incorporated into or installed in or about the Premises or Improvements; together with
(h)
All of Mortgagor’s interest in and to all operating accounts pertaining to the Property; together with
(i)
All rights to the payment of money, accounts, accounts receivable, reserves, deferred payments, refunds (including real estate tax refunds), cost savings, payments and deposits, whether now or later to be received from third parties (including all xxxxxxx money sales deposits) or deposited by Mortgagor with third parties (including all utility deposits), contract rights (including any property management agreements), development and use rights, governmental permits and licenses, applications, architectural and engineering plans, specifications and drawings, as-built drawings, chattel paper, instruments, documents, notes, drafts and letters of credit (other than letters of credit in favor of Mortgagee), which arise from or relate to construction on the Premises or to any business now or later to be conducted on it, or to the Premises and Improvements generally and any builder’s or manufacturer’s warranties with respect thereto; together with
(j)
All insurance policies pertaining to the Premises and all proceeds, including all claims to and demands for them, of the voluntary or involuntary conversion of any of the Premises, Improvements or the other property described above into cash or liquidated claims, including proceeds of all present and future fire, hazard or casualty insurance policies and all condemnation awards or payments now or later to be made by any public body or decree by any court of competent jurisdiction for any taking or in connection with any condemnation or eminent domain proceeding, and all causes of action and their proceeds for any damage or injury to the Premises, Improvements or the other property described above or any part of them, or breach of warranty in connection with the construction of the Improvements, including causes of action arising in tort, contract, fraud or concealment of a material fact; together with
(k)
All books and records pertaining to any and all of the property described above, including computer-readable memory and any computer hardware or software necessary to access and process such memory (“Books and Records”); together with
(l)
All proceeds of, additions and accretions to, substitutions and replacements for, and changes in any of the property described above.
1.2
Secured Obligations.
(a)
Mortgagor makes the grant, conveyance, and mortgage set forth in Section 1.1 above, and grants the security interest set forth in Section 3 below for the purpose of securing the following obligations (the “Secured Obligations”) in any order of priority that Mortgagee may choose:
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(i)
Payment of all obligations at any time owing under the Notes under the terms of the Credit Agreement; and
(ii)
Payment and performance of all obligations of Mortgagor under this Mortgage; and
(iii)
Payment and performance of all other obligations of the Borrower and/or any other Guarantors under the other Loan Documents; and
(iv)
Payment and performance of all future advances and other obligations that Mortgagor or any successor in ownership of all or part of the Property may agree to pay and/or perform (whether as principal, surety or guarantor) for the benefit of Mortgagee, when a writing evidences the parties’ agreement that the advance or obligation be secured by this Mortgage; and
(v)
Payment and performance of all modifications, amendments, extensions, and renewals, however evidenced, of any of the Secured Obligations.
(b)
All persons who may have or acquire an interest in all or any part of the Property will be considered to have notice of, and will be bound by, the terms of the Secured Obligations and each other agreement or instrument made or entered into in connection with each of the Secured Obligations. Such terms include any provisions in the Note or the Credit Agreement which permit borrowing, repayment and reborrowing, or which provide that the interest rate on one or more of the Secured Obligations may vary from time to time.
2.
Assignment of Rents.
2.1
Assignment. Mortgagor hereby irrevocably, absolutely, presently and unconditionally assigns to Mortgagee all of Mortgagor’s title and interest, if any, in all existing and future Leases relating to the use and enjoyment of all or any part of the Premises and Improvements, and any and all guaranties and other agreements relating to or made in connection with any of such Leases. Such assignment to Mortgagee shall not be construed to bind Mortgagee to the performance of any of the covenants, conditions or provisions contained in any such Leases or otherwise impose any obligation on Mortgagee. Mortgagor hereby irrevocably, absolutely, presently and unconditionally assigns to Mortgagee all rents, sublease rents, royalties, issues, profits, revenue, income, accounts, proceeds and other benefits of the Property, whether now due, past due or to become due, including all prepaid rents and security deposits, and including any termination payments under any Lease or sublease (some or all collectively, as the context may require, “Rents”). This is an absolute assignment, not an assignment for security only.
2.2
Grant of License. Mortgagee hereby confers upon Mortgagor a license (“License”) to collect and retain the Rents as they become due and payable, so long as no Default, as defined in Section 6.2 below, shall exist and be continuing. If a Default has occurred and is continuing, Mortgagee shall have the right, which it may choose to exercise in its sole
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discretion, to terminate this License without notice to or demand upon Mortgagor, and without regard to the adequacy of Mortgagee’s security under this Mortgage.
2.3
Collection and Application of Rents. Subject to the License granted to Mortgagor under Section 2.2 above, Mortgagee has the right, power and authority to collect any and all Rents. Mortgagor hereby appoints Mortgagee its attorney-in-fact to perform any and all of the following acts, if and at the times when Mortgagee in its sole discretion may so choose:
(a)
Demand, receive and enforce payment of any and all Rents; or
(b)
Give receipts, releases and satisfactions for any and all Rents; or
(c)
Xxx either in the name of Mortgagor or in the name of Mortgagee for any and all Rents.
Mortgagee and Mortgagor agree that the mere recordation of the assignment granted herein entitles Mortgagee immediately to collect and receive rents upon the occurrence of a Default, as defined in Section 6.2, without first taking any acts of enforcement under applicable law, such as, but not limited to, providing notice to Mortgagor, filing foreclosure proceedings, or seeking and/or obtaining the appointment of a receiver. Further, Mortgagee’s right to the Rents does not depend on whether or not Mortgagee takes possession of the Property as permitted under Subsection 6.3(c). In Mortgagee’s sole discretion, Mortgagee may choose to collect Rents either with or without taking possession of the Property. Mortgagee shall apply all Rents collected by it in the manner provided under Section 6.6. If a Default occurs while Mortgagee is in possession of all or part of the Property and is collecting and applying Rents as permitted under this Mortgage, Mortgagee and any receiver shall nevertheless be entitled to exercise and invoke every right and remedy afforded any of them under this Mortgage and at law or in equity.
2.4.
Mortgagee Not Responsible. Under no circumstances shall Mortgagee have any duty to produce Rents from the Property. Regardless of whether or not Mortgagee, in person or by agent, takes actual possession of the Premises and Improvements, unless Mortgagee agrees in writing to the contrary, Mortgagee is not and shall not be deemed to be:
(a)
A “mortgagee in possession” for any purpose; or
(b)
Responsible for performing any of the obligations of the lessor under any Lease; or
(c)
Responsible for any waste committed by lessees or any other parties, any dangerous or defective condition of the Property, or any negligence in the management, upkeep, repair or control of the Property, unless caused by the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of Mortgagee; or
(d)
Liable in any manner for the Property or the use, occupancy, enjoyment or operation of all or any part of it.
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2.5
Leasing. Mortgagor shall not accept any deposit or prepayment of rents under the Leases for any rental period exceeding one (1) month without Mortgagee’s prior written consent. Mortgagor covenants and agrees that it shall not enter into, modify, waive or release any party from the performance or observance of any material obligation or condition, or terminate or accept the surrender, of any Lease (including, but not limited to, any guaranty, letter of credit or other credit support thereof) (each of the foregoing circumstances being a “Material Lease Event”) which affects any one space comprising 10,000 square feet or more of gross leaseable area (a “Major Lease”), without the prior written approval of Mortgagee in each instance, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. Each request for approval shall be made in writing to Mortgagee and shall include the following in all capital, bold and block letters:
“THE FOLLOWING REQUEST REQUIRES A RESPONSE WITHIN 15 DAYS OF RECEIPT. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL BE DEEMED AN APPROVAL OF THE REQUEST.”
Failure of Mortgagee to approve or disapprove a Material Lease Event within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such written request and all documents and information reasonably required by Mortgagee, shall be deemed approval, provided that the written request for approval specifically mentioned the same as required above.
3.
Grant of Security Interest.
3.1
Security Agreement. The parties intend for this Mortgage to create a lien on the Property, and an absolute assignment of the Leases and Rents, all in favor of Mortgagee. The parties acknowledge that some of the Property and some or all of the Rents may be determined under applicable law to be personal property or fixtures. To the extent that any Property, Leases or Rents may be or be determined to be personal property, Mortgagor as debtor hereby grants Mortgagee as secured party a security interest in all such Property, Leases and Rents, to secure payment and performance of the Secured Obligations. This Mortgage constitutes a security agreement under the Uniform Commercial Code of the State in which the Property is located, covering all such Property, Leases and Rents.
3.2
Financing Statements. Mortgagor hereby authorizes Mortgagee to file one or more financing statements. In addition, Mortgagor shall execute such other documents as Mortgagee may from time to time require to perfect or continue the perfection of Mortgagee’s security interest in any Property, Leases or Rents. As provided in Section 5.10 below, Mortgagor shall pay all fees and costs that Mortgagee may incur in filing such documents in public offices and in obtaining such record searches as Mortgagee may reasonably require. In case Mortgagor fails to execute any financing statements or other documents for the perfection or continuation of any security interest, Mortgagor hereby appoints Mortgagee as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact to execute any such documents on its behalf. If any financing statement or other document is filed in the records normally pertaining to personal property, that filing shall never be construed as in any way derogating from or impairing this Mortgage or the rights or obligations of the parties under it.
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4.
Fixture Filing.
This Mortgage constitutes a financing statement filed as a fixture filing under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code in the State in which the Property is located, as amended or recodified from time to time, covering any Property which now is or later may become fixtures attached to the Premises or Improvements. For this purpose, the respective addresses of Mortgagor, as debtor, and Mortgagee, as secured party, are as set forth in the preamble of this Mortgage.
5.
Rights and Duties of the Parties.
5.1
Representations and Warranties. Mortgagor represents and warrants that:
(a)
Mortgagor lawfully possesses and holds fee simple title to all of the Premises and Improvements;
(b)
Mortgagor has or will have good title to all Property other than the Premises and Improvements;
(c)
Mortgagor has the full and unlimited power, right and authority to encumber the Property and assign the Rents;
(d)
This Mortgage creates a first and prior lien on the Property;
(e)
The Property includes all property and rights which may be reasonably necessary or desirable to promote the present and any reasonable future beneficial use and enjoyment of the Premises and Improvements;
(f)
Mortgagor owns any Property which is personal property free and clear of any security agreements, reservations of title or conditional sales contracts, and there is no financing statement affecting such personal property on file in any public office;
(g)
Mortgagor’s place of business, or its chief executive office if it has more than one place of business, is located at the address set forth in the preamble of this Mortgage;
(h)
There has been no material adverse change in the physical or financial condition of the Property since the most recent date on which Mortgagor delivered to Mortgagee rent rolls and other information regarding the physical and financial condition of the Property.
5.2
Taxes, and Assessments. Mortgagor shall, prior to delinquency, pay or cause to be paid each installment of all taxes and special assessments of every kind, now or hereafter levied against the Property or any part thereof, without notice or demand, and shall provide Mortgagee with evidence of the payment of same upon the request of Mortgagee. Mortgagor shall pay all taxes and assessments which may be levied upon Mortgagee’s or the Lenders’ interest herein or upon this Mortgage or the debt secured hereby (excluding any income taxes
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or similar charges imposed upon Mortgagee or the Lenders), without regard to any law that may be enacted imposing payment of the whole or any part thereof upon the Mortgagee or any Lender. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section to the contrary, Mortgagor shall have the right to pay or cause to be paid any such tax or special assessment under protest or to otherwise contest any such tax or special assessment but only if (i) such contest has the effect of preventing the collection of such tax or special assessment so contested and also prevent the sale or forfeiture of the Property or any part thereof or any interest therein, (ii) Mortgagor promptly notifies Mortgagee in writing of its intent to contest such tax or special assessment, and (iii) if so requested in writing by Mortgagee, Mortgagor has deposited security in form and amount reasonably satisfactory to Mortgagee, and increases the amount of such security so deposited promptly after Mortgagee’s request therefor. Mortgagor shall prosecute or cause the prosecution of all such contest actions in good faith and with due diligence and, promptly after request from Mortgagee, report to Mortgagee on the status and results of such contest actions. If any such contest action is unsuccessful Mortgagor shall promptly pay all sums determined to be due as required by the final order or ruling in such contest action and in any event such payment shall be made prior to the date on which the Property may be sold, lost or forfeited under any writ or order issued pursuant to such final order or ruling.
5.3
Performance of Secured Obligations. Mortgagor shall promptly pay and perform each Secured Obligation in accordance with its terms.
5.4
Liens, Charges and Encumbrances. Mortgagor shall not permit any lien, charge or encumbrance on or against the Property other than those permitted under clauses (i)-(iv) of Section 6.16 of the Credit Agreement and shall immediately discharge any such unpermitted lien, charge or encumbrance on the Property promptly after written demand from the Mortgagee.
5.5
Damages, Restoration, and Insurance Proceeds. As long as no Default has occurred and is then continuing, all insurance proceeds for losses at the Property of less than $1,000,000.00 shall be adjusted with and payable to the Mortgagor. In case of loss, Mortgagee shall have the right (but not the obligation) to participate in and reasonably approve the settlement of any insurance claim in excess of $1,000,000.00, and with respect to claims in excess of $1,000,000.00, Mortgagee is authorized to collect and receive any insurance money for such claims.
So long as no Default has occurred and is then continuing, and to the extent that either (i) Mortgagor is obligated to carry out such repair or restoration under one or more of the Leases or (ii) the costs of restoration do not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the value of the Improvements immediately prior to such casualty, the Mortgagee shall make such insurance proceeds available to pay for such costs of repair and restoration on a monthly basis during such repair and restoration. The Premises shall be so restored or rebuilt as to be substantially the same quality and character as the Premises were prior to such damage or destruction in accordance with the original plans and specifications or to such other condition as Mortgagee shall reasonably approve in writing. If the conditions to Mortgagee’s obligation to make such insurance proceeds are not satisfied, the Mortgagee shall have the right, if so directed by the
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Required Lenders, to apply such insurance proceeds to payment of the Secured Obligations, whether due or not. .
If Mortgagee is holding any such insurance proceeds, any request by Mortgagor for a disbursement by Mortgagee of fire or casualty insurance proceeds or of funds deposited by Mortgagor with Mortgagee pursuant to this Section 5.5 shall be conditioned upon Borrower’s providing to Mortgagee: updated title insurance; satisfactory evidence, as reasonably determined by Mortgagee, that the Premises shall be so restored or rebuilt as to be of at least equal value and quality and substantially the same character as the Premises were prior to such damage or destruction in accordance with the original plans and specifications or to such other condition as Mortgagee shall reasonably approve in writing; satisfactory evidence of the estimated cost of completion thereof; and with such architect’s certificates, waivers of lien, contractors’ sworn statements and other evidence of cost and of payments as Mortgagee may reasonably require and approve. The undisbursed balance of insurance proceeds shall at all times be sufficient to pay for the cost of completion of the work free and clear of liens and if such proceeds are insufficient, Mortgagor shall deposit the amount of such deficiency with Mortgagee prior to the disbursement by Mortgagee of any insurance proceeds.
5.6
Condemnation Proceeds. Mortgagor hereby assigns, transfers and sets over unto Mortgagee its entire interest in the proceeds (the “Condemnation Proceeds”) of any award or any claim for damages for any of the Property taken or damaged under the power of eminent domain or by condemnation or any transaction in lieu of condemnation (“Condemnation”), unless, notwithstanding the foregoing, such taking, damage or condemnation does not cause a material diminution in the value of the Premises. So long as the portion of the Premises taken in such Condemnation does not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the total square footage of the Premises and the portion of the Improvements taken in such Condemnation does not exceed five percent (5%) of the total gross leaseable area of the Improvements, Mortgagee shall be obligated to make the Condemnation Proceeds available to Mortgagor for the restoration of the Property, if Mortgagor satisfies all of the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 hereof for disbursement of insurance proceeds. In all other cases Mortgagee shall have the right, if so directed by the Required Lenders, to apply the Condemnation Proceeds to payment of the Secured Obligations, whether due or not. If the Condemnation Proceeds are required to be used as aforesaid to reimburse Mortgagor for the cost of rebuilding or restoring buildings or improvements on the Property, or if Mortgagee elects that the Condemnation Proceeds be so used, and the buildings and other improvements shall be rebuilt or restored, the Condemnation Proceeds shall be paid out in the same manner as is provided in Section 5.5 hereof for the payment of insurance proceeds toward the cost of rebuilding or restoration of such buildings and other improvements. Any surplus which may remain out of the Condemnation Proceeds after payment of such cost of rebuilding or restoration shall, at the option of Mortgagee, be applied on account of the indebtedness secured hereby or be paid to any other party entitled thereto.
5.7
Maintenance and Preservation of Property.
(a)
Mortgagor shall keep the Property in good condition and repair, ordinary wear and tear excepted, as provided in Section 6.8 of the Credit Agreement.
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(b)
Mortgagor shall not remove or demolish the Property or any material part of it in any way, or materially alter, restore or add to the Property, or initiate or allow any material change or variance in any zoning or other Premises use classification which adversely affects the Property or any material part of it, except with Mortgagee’s express prior written consent in each instance.
(c)
Mortgagor shall not commit or allow any act upon or use of the Property which would violate: (i) any applicable Laws or order of any Governmental Authority, whether now existing or later to be enacted and whether foreseen or unforeseen; or (ii) any public or private covenant, condition, restriction or equitable servitude affecting the Property. Mortgagor shall not bring or keep any article on the Property or cause or allow any condition to exist on it, if that could invalidate or would be prohibited by any insurance coverage required to be maintained by Mortgagor on the Property or any part of it under the Credit Agreement.
(d)
Mortgagor shall not commit or allow waste of the Property, including those acts or omissions characterized under the Credit Agreement as waste which arises out of Materials of Environmental Concern.
(e)
Mortgagor shall perform all other acts which from the character or use of the Property may be reasonably necessary to maintain and preserve its value.
(f)
Mortgagor shall insure the Property as required by Section 5.17 of the Credit Agreement and shall also carry worker’s compensation insurance as and to the extent required by law. During the term of the Credit Agreement, the premium on each such insurance policy shall be paid on or prior to the date when due and the policy term renewed annually in the same form and with at least the same coverage as the preceding year, with Mortgagee to receive notice of renewal at least thirty (30) days prior to expiration. Further, no such policy shall be subject to cancellation, nonrenewal or reduction of coverage unless the insurer has given Mortgagee at least thirty (30) days' (or in the case of non-payment of premium, ten (10) days) prior written notice of such action. All policies described herein must be issued by insurance companies and agencies licensed by the Insurance Commission (or comparable agency) of the state in which the Property is located (the "State") to conduct business in the State and approved by Mortgagee. Mortgagee shall have the right to approve each and every insurance carrier and policy (in form and content), such approval not to be unreasonably withheld. All policies shall include a standard, non-contributory mortgagee clause naming Mortgagee as additional insured under all liability insurance policies, as first mortgagee and loss payee on all property insurance policies and as the loss payee on all loss of rents insurance policies.
5.8
Releases, Extensions, Modifications and Additional Security. From time to time, Mortgagee may perform any of the following acts without incurring any liability or giving notice to any person:
(a)
Release any person liable for payment of any Secured Obligation;
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(b)
Extend the time for payment, or otherwise alter the terms of payment, of any Secured Obligation;
(c)
Accept additional real or personal property of any kind as security for any Secured Obligation, whether evidenced by deeds of trust, mortgages, security agreements or any other instruments of security;
(d)
Alter, substitute or release any property securing the Secured Obligations;
(e)
Consent to the making of any plat or map of the Property or any part of it;
(f)
Join in granting any easement or creating any restriction affecting the Property; or
(g)
Join in any subordination or other agreement affecting this Mortgage or the lien of it; or
(h)
Release the Property or any part of it.
5.9
Release. If (a) Borrower shall fully pay all principal and interest on the Notes, and all other indebtedness secured hereby and comply with all of the other terms and provisions hereof to be performed and complied with by Mortgagor, and terminate the obligations of the Lenders to make additional advances under the Credit Agreement; or (b) Borrower shall comply with the terms and conditions as set forth in Section 2.3(b) of the Credit Agreement for release of this Mortgage, Mortgagee, upon written request of Mortgagor stating that the requirements of either clause (a) or clause (b) above have been satisfied, shall release this Mortgage and the lien thereof by proper instrument upon payment and discharge of the amounts required under the Credit Agreement and payment of any filing fee in connection with such release. Mortgagor shall pay any costs of preparation and recordation of such release.
5.10
Compensation, Exculpation, Indemnification.
(a)
Mortgagor agrees to pay fees required by and pursuant to the Credit Agreement, for any services that Mortgagee may render in connection with this Mortgage, including Mortgagee’s providing a statement of the Secured Obligations or providing the release pursuant to Section 5.9 above. Mortgagor shall also pay or reimburse all of Mortgagee’s costs and expenses which may be incurred in rendering any such services. Mortgagor further agrees to pay or reimburse Mortgagee for all costs, expenses and other advances which may be incurred or made by Mortgagee in any efforts to enforce any terms of this Mortgage, including any rights or remedies afforded to Mortgagee under Section 6.3, whether any lawsuit is filed or not, or in defending any action or proceeding arising under or relating to this Mortgage, including attorneys’ fees and other legal costs, costs of any Foreclosure Sale (as defined in Subsection 6.3(i) below) and any cost of evidence of title. If Mortgagee chooses to dispose of Property through more than one Foreclosure Sale, Mortgagor shall pay all costs, expenses or other advances that may be incurred or made by Mortgagee in each
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of such Foreclosure Sales. In any suit to foreclose the lien hereof or enforce any other remedy of Mortgagee under this Mortgage or the Note, there shall be allowed and included as additional indebtedness in the decree for sale or other judgment or decree all expenditures and expenses which may be paid or incurred by or on behalf of Mortgagee for attorneys’ costs and fees (including the costs and fees of paralegals), survey charges, appraiser’s fees, inspecting engineer’s and/or architect’s fees, fees for environmental studies and assessments and all additional expenses incurred by Mortgagee with respect to environmental matters, outlays for documentary and expert evidence, stenographers’ charges, publication costs, and costs (which may be estimated as to items to be expended after entry of the decree) of procuring all such abstracts of title, title searches and examinations, title insurance policies, and similar data and assurances with respect to title as Mortgagee may deem reasonably necessary either to prosecute such suit or to evidence to bidders at any sale which may be had pursuant to such decree the true condition of the title to, the value of or the environmental condition of the Property. All expenditures and expenses of the nature in this Subsection mentioned, and such expenses and fees as may be incurred in the protection of the Property and maintenance of the lien of this Mortgage, including the fees of any attorney (including the costs and fees of paralegals) employed by Mortgagee in any litigation or proceeding affecting this Mortgage, the Note or the Property, including probate and bankruptcy proceedings, or in preparation for the commencement or defense of any proceeding or threatened suit or proceeding, shall be immediately due and payable by Mortgagor, with interest thereon at the Default Rate applicable to Floating Rate Advances and shall be secured by this Mortgage.
(b)
Mortgagee shall not be directly or indirectly liable to Mortgagor or any other person as a consequence of any of the following:
(i)
Mortgagee’s exercise of or failure to exercise any rights, remedies or powers granted to Mortgagee in this Mortgage;
(ii)
Mortgagee’s failure or refusal to perform or discharge any obligation or liability of Mortgagor under any agreement related to the Property or under this Mortgage; or
(iii)
Any loss sustained by Mortgagor or any third party resulting from Mortgagee’s failure to lease the Property, or from any other act or omission of Mortgagee in managing the Property, after a Default, unless the loss is caused by the willful misconduct, gross negligence, or bad faith of Mortgagee.
Mortgagor hereby expressly waives and releases all liability of the types described above, and agrees that no such liability shall be asserted against or imposed upon Mortgagee.
(c)
Mortgagor agrees to indemnify Mortgagee against and hold it harmless from all losses, damages, liabilities, claims, causes of action, judgments, court costs, attorneys’ fees and other legal expenses, cost of evidence of title, cost of evidence of
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value, and other costs and expenses which it may suffer or incur, unless caused by the negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of the Mortgagee:
(i)
In performing any act required or permitted by this Mortgage or any of the other Loan Documents or by law;
(ii)
Because of any failure of Mortgagor to perform any of its obligations; or
(iii)
Because of any alleged obligation of or undertaking by Mortgagee to perform or discharge any of the representations, warranties, conditions, covenants or other obligations in any document relating to the Property other than the Loan Documents.
This agreement by Mortgagor to indemnify Mortgagee shall survive the release and cancellation of any or all of the Secured Obligations and the full or partial release of this Mortgage.
(d)
Mortgagor shall pay all obligations to pay money arising under this Section 5.10 immediately upon demand by Mortgagee. Each such obligation shall be added to, and considered to be part of, the principal of the Note, and shall bear interest from the date the obligation arises at the Default Rate applicable to Floating Rate Advances.
5.11
Defense and Notice of Claims and Actions. At Mortgagor’s sole expense, Mortgagor shall protect, preserve and defend the Property and title to and right of possession of the Property, and the security of this Mortgage and the rights and powers of Mortgagee created under it, against all adverse claims. Mortgagor shall give Mortgagee prompt notice in writing if any claim is asserted which does or could affect any such matters, or if any action or proceeding is commenced which alleges or relates to any such claim.
5.12
Subrogation. Mortgagee shall be subrogated to the liens of all encumbrances, whether released of record or not, which are discharged in whole or in part by Mortgagee in accordance with this Mortgage or with the proceeds of any loan secured by this Mortgage.
5.13
Site Visits, Observation and Testing. Mortgagee and its agents and representatives shall have the right to enter and visit the Property in accordance with the terms of Section 6.9 of the Credit Agreement for the purpose of performing appraisals, observing the Property, and conducting non-invasive tests (unless Mortgagee has a good faith reason to believe that the taking and removing soil or groundwater samples is required, and in such case, conducting such tests) on any part of the Property. Mortgagee has no duty, however, to visit or observe the Property or to conduct tests, and no site visit, observation or testing by Mortgagee, its agents or representatives shall impose any liability on any of Mortgagee, its agents or representatives. In no event shall any site visit, observation or testing by Mortgagee, its agents or representatives be a representation that Materials of Environmental Concern are or are not present in, on or under the Property, or that there has been or shall be compliance with any law, regulation or ordinance pertaining to Materials of Environmental Concern or any other
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applicable governmental law. Neither Mortgagor nor any other party is entitled to rely on any site visit, observation or testing by any of Mortgagee, its agents or representatives. Neither Mortgagee, its agents or representatives owe any duty of care to protect Mortgagor or any other party against, or to inform Mortgagor or any other party of, any Materials of Environmental Concern or any other adverse condition affecting the Property. Mortgagee shall give Mortgagor reasonable notice before entering the Property. Mortgagee shall make reasonable efforts to avoid interfering with Mortgagor’s use of the Property in exercising any rights provided in this Section 5.13. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all rights granted to Mortgagee under this Section 5.13 are subject to all rights of tenants to the Property.
5.14
Notice of Change. Mortgagor shall give Mortgagee prior written notice of any change in: (a) the location of its place of business or its chief executive office if it has more than one place of business; (b) the location of any of the Property, including the Books and Records; and (c) Mortgagor’s name or business structure. Unless otherwise approved by Mortgagee in writing, all Property that consists of personal property (other than the Books and Records) will be located on the Premises and all Books and Records will be located at Mortgagor’s place of business or chief executive office if Mortgagor has more than one place of business.
6.
Transfers, Default and Remedies.
6.1
Transfers. Mortgagor acknowledges that Mortgagee is making one or more advances under the Credit Agreement in reliance on the expertise, skill and experience of Mortgagor; thus, the Secured Obligations include material elements similar in nature to a personal service contract. In consideration of Mortgagee’s reliance, Mortgagor agrees that Mortgagor shall not make any transfer of the Property or transfer of its interests therein, except for leases in the ordinary course (a “Transfer”), unless the Transfer is preceded by Mortgagee’s express written consent to the particular transaction and transferee. Mortgagee may withhold such consent in its sole discretion.
In addition, Mortgagor is not required to first obtain Mortgagee’s written consent before entering into a grant, restriction, covenant or easement affecting the Property (collectively, “Grant”) in the ordinary course of business for access, parking, utilities or a similar purpose, provided such easement does not materially adversely affect the utility, operation or value of the Property. In connection with any such permitted Grant, if requested in writing, Mortgagee shall within ten (10) business days of receipt of such request accompanied by a copy of the instrument creating the Grant, execute an instrument in reasonable form to subordinate the lien of the Mortgage to such Grant.
6.2
Events of Default. Mortgagor will be in default under this Mortgage upon the occurrence of any one or more of the following events (each a “Default”):
(i)
If a default shall occur with respect to covenants, agreements and obligations of Mortgagor under this Mortgage involving the payment of money and shall continue for a period of five (5) business days after the due date thereof; or
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(ii)
If there is a failure to perform or observe any of the other covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Mortgage in accordance with the terms hereof, and such default continues unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after written notice from Mortgagee to Mortgagor of the occurrence thereof;
(iii)
A “Default” (as defined in the Credit Agreement) occurs under the Credit Agreement.
6.3
Remedies. At any time after a Default, Mortgagee shall be entitled to invoke any and all of the rights and remedies described below, in addition to all other rights and remedies available to Mortgagee at law or in equity. All of such rights and remedies shall be cumulative, and the exercise of any one or more of them shall not constitute an election of remedies.
(a)
Acceleration. Upon the occurrence and continuation of any Default, the whole of said principal sum hereby secured shall, either automatically or at the election of Mortgagee as described in Section 8.1 of the Credit Agreement, become immediately due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon, without any presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind to Mortgagor.
(b)
Receiver. Mortgagee shall, as a matter of right, without notice and without giving bond to Mortgagor or anyone claiming by, under or through Mortgagor, and without regard for the solvency or insolvency of Mortgagor or the then value of the Property, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be entitled to have a receiver appointed for all or any part of the Property and the Rents, and the proceeds, issues and profits thereof, with the rights and powers referenced below and such other rights and powers as the court making such appointment shall confer, and Mortgagor hereby consents to the appointment of such receiver and shall not oppose any such appointment. Such receiver shall have all powers and duties prescribed by applicable law, all other powers which are necessary or usual in such cases for the protection, possession, control, management and operation of the Property, and such rights and powers as Mortgagee would have, upon entering and taking possession of the Property under subsection (c) below.
(c)
Entry. Mortgagee, in person, by agent or by court-appointed receiver, may enter, take possession of, manage and operate all or any part of the Property, and may also do any and all other things in connection with those actions that Mortgagee may in its sole discretion consider necessary and appropriate to protect the security of this Mortgage. Such other things may include: taking and possessing all of Mortgagor’s or the then owner’s Books and Records; entering into, enforcing, modifying or canceling Leases on such terms and conditions as Mortgagee may consider proper; obtaining and evicting tenants; fixing or modifying Rents; collecting and receiving any payment of money owing to Mortgagee; completing any unfinished construction; and/or contracting for and making repairs and alterations. If Mortgagee so requests, Mortgagor shall assemble all of the Property that has been removed from the Premises and make all of it available to Mortgagee at the site of the Premises. Mortgagor hereby irrevocably
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constitutes and appoints Mortgagee as Mortgagor’s attorney-in-fact to perform such acts and execute such documents as Mortgagee in its sole discretion may consider to be appropriate in connection with taking these measures, including endorsement of Mortgagor’s name on any instruments.
(d)
Cure; Protection of Security. Mortgagee may cure any breach or default of Mortgagor, and if it chooses to do so in connection with any such cure, Mortgagee may also enter the Property and/or do any and all other things which it may in its sole discretion consider necessary and appropriate to protect the security of this Mortgage. Such other things may include: appearing in and/or defending any action or proceeding which purports to affect the security of, or the rights or powers of Mortgagee under, this Mortgage; paying, purchasing, contesting or compromising any encumbrance, charge, lien or claim of lien which in Mortgagee’s sole judgment is or may be senior in priority to this Mortgage, such judgment of Mortgagee or to be conclusive as among the parties to this Mortgage; obtaining insurance and/or paying any premiums or charges for insurance required to be carried under the Credit Agreement; otherwise caring for and protecting any and all of the Property; and/or employing counsel, accountants, contractors and other appropriate persons to assist Mortgagee. Mortgagee may take any of the actions permitted under this Subsection 6.3(d) either with or without giving notice to any person. Any amounts expended by Mortgagee under this Subsection 6.3(d) shall be secured by this Mortgage and the other Loan Documents.
(e)
Uniform Commercial Code Remedies. Mortgagee may exercise any or all of the remedies granted to a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code in the State in which the Property is located.
(f)
Foreclosure; Lawsuits. Mortgagee shall have the right, in one or several concurrent or consecutive proceedings, to foreclose the lien hereof upon the Property or any part thereof, for the Secured Obligations, or any part thereof, by any proceedings appropriate under applicable law. Mortgagee or its nominee may bid and become the purchaser of all or any part of the Property at any foreclosure or other sale hereunder, and the amount of Mortgagee’s successful bid shall be credited on the Secured Obligations. Without limiting the foregoing, Mortgagee may proceed by a suit or suits in law or equity, whether for specific performance of any covenant or agreement herein contained or in aid of the execution of any power herein granted, or for any foreclosure under the judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction. In addition to the right provided in Subsection 6.3(b), upon, or at any time after the filing of a complaint to foreclose this Mortgage, Mortgagee shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver of the property by the court in which such complaint is filed, and Mortgagor hereby consents to such appointment.
(g)
Other Remedies. Mortgagee may exercise all rights and remedies contained in any other instrument, document, agreement or other writing heretofore, concurrently or in the future executed by Mortgagor or any other person or entity in favor of Mortgagee in connection with the Secured Obligations or any part thereof, without prejudice to the right of Mortgagee thereafter to enforce any appropriate remedy against
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Mortgagor. Mortgagee shall have the right to pursue all remedies afforded to a mortgagee under applicable law, and shall have the benefit of all of the provisions of such applicable law, including all amendments thereto which may become effective from time to time after the date hereof.
(h)
Sale of Personal Property. Mortgagee shall have the discretionary right to cause some or all of the Property, which constitutes personal property, to be sold or otherwise disposed of in any combination and in any manner permitted by applicable law.
(i)
For purposes of this power of sale, Mortgagee may elect to treat as personal property any Property which is intangible or which can be severed from the Premises or Improvements without causing structural damage. If it chooses to do so, Mortgagee may dispose of any personal property, in any manner permitted by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State in which the Property is located, including any public or private sale, or in any manner permitted by any other applicable law.
(ii)
In connection with any sale or other disposition of such Property, Mortgagor agrees that the following procedures constitute a commercially reasonable sale: Mortgagee shall mail written notice of the sale to Mortgagor not later than thirty (30) days prior to such sale. Mortgagee will publish notice of the sale in a local daily newspaper of general circulation. Upon receipt of any written request, Mortgagee will make the Property available to any bona fide prospective purchaser for inspection during reasonable business hours. Notwithstanding, Mortgagee shall be under no obligation to consummate a sale if, in its judgment, none of the offers received by it equals the fair value of the Property offered for sale. The foregoing procedures do not constitute the only procedures that may be commercially reasonable.
(i)
Single or Multiple Foreclosure Sales. If the Property consists of more than one lot, parcel or item of property, Mortgagee may:
(i)
Designate the order in which the lots, parcels and/or items shall be sold or disposed of or offered for sale or disposition; and
(ii)
Elect to dispose of the lots, parcels and/or items through a single consolidated sale or disposition to be held or made under or in connection with judicial proceedings, or by virtue of a judgment and decree of foreclosure and sale; or through two or more such sales or dispositions; or in any other manner Mortgagee may deem to be in its best interests (any such sale or disposition, a “Foreclosure Sale;” and any two or more, “Foreclosure Sales”).
If Mortgagee chooses to have more than one Foreclosure Sale, Mortgagee at its option may cause the Foreclosure Sales to be held simultaneously or successively, on the same day, or on such different days and at such different
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times and in such order as Mortgagee may deem to be in its best interests. No Foreclosure Sale shall terminate or affect the liens of this Mortgage on any part of the Property which has not been sold, until all of the Secured Obligations have been paid in full.
6.4
Credit Bids. At any Foreclosure Sale, any person, including Mortgagor or Mortgagee, may bid for and acquire the Property or any part of it to the extent permitted by then applicable law. Instead of paying cash for such property, Mortgagee may settle for the purchase price by crediting the sales price of the property against the following obligations:
(a)
First, the portion of the Secured Obligations attributable to the expenses of sale, costs of any action and any other sums for which Mortgagor is obligated to pay or reimburse Mortgagee under Section 5.10 of this Mortgage; and
(b)
Second, all other Secured Obligations in any order and proportions as Mortgagee in its sole discretion may choose.
6.5
Application of Foreclosure Sale Proceeds. Mortgagee shall apply the proceeds of any Foreclosure Sale in the following manner:
(a)
First, to pay the portion of the Secured Obligations attributable to the expenses of sale, costs of any action and any other sums for which Mortgagor is obligated to reimburse Mortgagee under Section 5.10 of this Mortgage;
(b)
Second, to pay the portion of the Secured Obligations attributable to any sums expended or advanced by Mortgagee under the terms of this Mortgage which then remain unpaid;
(c)
Third, to pay all other Secured Obligations in any order and proportions as Mortgagee in its sole discretion may choose; and
(d)
Fourth, to remit the remainder, if any, to the person or persons entitled to it.
6.6
Application of Rents and Other Sums. Mortgagee shall apply any and all Rents collected by it, and any and all sums other than proceeds of a Foreclosure Sale which Mortgagee may receive or collect under Section 6.3 above, in the following manner:
(a)
First, to pay the portion of the Secured Obligations attributable to the costs and expenses of operation and collection that may be incurred by Mortgagee or any receiver;
(b)
Second, to pay all other Secured Obligations in any order and proportions as Mortgagee in its sole discretion may choose; and
(c)
Third, to remit the remainder, if any, to the person or persons entitled to it.
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Mortgagee shall have no liability for any funds which it does not actually receive.
7.
Miscellaneous Provisions.
7.1
Additional Provisions. The Loan Documents fully state all of the terms and conditions of the parties’ agreement regarding the matters mentioned in or incidental to this Mortgage. The Loan Documents also grant further rights to Mortgagee and contain further agreements and affirmative and negative covenants by Borrower and Mortgagor which apply to this Mortgage and to the Property.
7.2
No Waiver or Cure.
(a)
Each waiver by Mortgagee must be in writing, and no waiver shall be construed as a continuing waiver. No waiver shall be implied from any delay or failure by Mortgagee to take action on account of any default of Mortgagor. Consent by Mortgagee to any act or omission by Mortgagor shall not be construed as a consent to any other or subsequent act or omission or to waive the requirement for Mortgagee’s consent to be obtained in any future or other instance.
(b)
If any of the events described below occurs, that event alone shall not: cure or waive any breach, Default or notice of default under this Mortgage or invalidate any act performed pursuant to any such default or notice; or nullify the effect of any notice of default or sale (unless all Secured Obligations then due have been paid and performed and all other defaults under the Loan Documents have been cured); or impair the security of this Mortgage; or prejudice Mortgagee or any receiver in the exercise of any right or remedy afforded any of them under this Mortgage; or be construed as an affirmation by Mortgagee of any tenancy, lease or option, or a subordination of the lien of this Mortgage.
(i)
Mortgagee, its agent or a receiver takes possession of all or any part of the Property in the manner provided in Subsection 6.3(c).
(ii)
Mortgagee collects and applies Rents as permitted under Sections 2.3 and 6.6 above, either with or without taking possession of all or any part of the Property.
(iii)
Mortgagee receives and applies to any Secured Obligation any proceeds of any Property, including any proceeds of insurance policies, condemnation awards, or other claims, property or rights assigned to Mortgagee under Section 5.5 and Section 5.6 above.
(iv)
Mortgagee makes a site visit, observes the Property and/or conducts tests as permitted under Section 5.13 above.
(v)
Mortgagee receives any sums under this Mortgage or any proceeds of any collateral held for any of the Secured Obligations, and applies them to one or more Secured Obligations.
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(vi)
Mortgagee or any receiver invokes any right or remedy provided under this Mortgage.
7.3
Powers of Mortgagee.
(a)
If Mortgagee performs any act which it is empowered or authorized to perform under this Mortgage, including any act permitted by Section 5.8 or Subsection 6.3(d) of this Mortgage, that act alone shall not release or change the personal liability of any person for the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations then outstanding, or the lien of this Mortgage on all or the remainder of the Property for full payment and performance of all outstanding Secured Obligations. The liability of the original Mortgagor shall not be released or changed if Mortgagee grants any successor in interest to Mortgagor any extension of time for payment, or modification of the terms of payment, of any Secured Obligation. Mortgagee shall not be required to comply with any demand by the original Mortgagor that Mortgagee refuse to grant such an extension or modification to, or commence proceedings against, any such successor in interest.
(b)
Mortgagee may take any of the actions permitted under Subsections 6.3(b) and/or 6.3(c) regardless of the adequacy of the security for the Secured Obligations, or whether any or all of the Secured Obligations have been declared to be immediately due and payable, or whether notice of default and election to sell has been given under this Mortgage.
(c)
From time to time, Mortgagee may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for aid and direction in executing and enforcing the rights and remedies created under this Mortgage. Mortgagee may from time to time obtain orders or decrees directing, confirming or approving acts in executing and enforcing these rights and remedies.
7.4
Merger. No merger shall occur as a result of Mortgagee’s acquiring any other estate in or any other lien on the Property unless Mortgagee consents to a merger in writing.
7.5
Joint and Several Liability. If Mortgagor consists of more than one person, each shall be jointly and severally liable for the faithful performance of all of Mortgagor’s obligations under this Mortgage.
7.6
Applicable Law. The creation, perfection and enforcement of the lien of this Mortgage shall be governed by the law of the State in which the Property is located. Subject to the foregoing, in all other respects, this Mortgage shall be governed by the substantive laws of the State of Illinois.
7.7
Successors in Interest. The terms, covenants and conditions of this Mortgage shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the heirs, successors and assigns of the parties. However, this Section 7.7 does not waive the provisions of Section 6.1 above.
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7.8
Interpretation.
(a)
Whenever the context requires, all words used in the singular will be construed to have been used in the plural, and vice versa, and each gender will include any other gender. The captions of the sections of this Mortgage are for convenience only and do not define or limit any terms or provisions. The word “include(s)” means “include(s), without limitation,” and the word “including” means “including, but not limited to.”
(b)
The word “obligations” is used in its broadest and most comprehensive sense, and includes all primary, secondary, direct, indirect, fixed and contingent obligations. It further includes all principal, interest, prepayment charges, late charges, loan fees and any other fees and charges accruing or assessed at any time, as well as all obligations to perform acts or satisfy conditions.
(c)
No listing of specific instances, items or matters in any way limits the scope or generality of any language of this Mortgage. The Exhibits to this Mortgage are hereby incorporated in this Mortgage.
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Waiver of Statutory Rights. To the extent permitted by law, Mortgagor hereby agrees that it shall not and will not apply for or avail itself of any appraisement, valuation, stay, extension or exemption laws, or any so-called “Moratorium Laws,” now existing or hereafter enacted, in order to prevent or hinder the enforcement or foreclosure of this Mortgage, but hereby waives the benefit of such laws. Mortgagor for itself and all who may claim through or under it waives any and all right to have the property and estates comprising the Property marshaled upon any foreclosure of the lien hereof and agrees that any court having jurisdiction to foreclose such lien may order the Property sold as an entirety. Mortgagor hereby waives any and all rights of redemption from sale under any judgment of foreclosure of this Mortgage on behalf of Mortgagor and on behalf of each and every person acquiring any interest in or title to the Property of any nature whatsoever, subsequent to the date of this Mortgage. The foregoing waiver of right of redemption is made pursuant to the provisions of applicable law.
7.10
Severability. If any provision of this Mortgage should be held unenforceable or void, that provision shall be deemed severable from the remaining provisions and shall in no way affect the validity of this Mortgage except that if such provision relates to the payment of any monetary sum, then Mortgagee may, at its option, declare all Secured Obligations immediately due and payable.
7.11
Notices. Any notice, demand, request or other communication which any party hereto may be required or may desire to give hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been properly given if given in accordance with Section 13.1 of the Credit Agreement and Section 13 of the Guaranty.
Any notice or demand delivered to the person or entity named above to accept notices and demands for Mortgagor shall constitute notice or demand duly delivered to Mortgagor, even if delivery is refused.
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7.12
Future Advances. This Mortgage is given to, and the parties intend that it shall secure indebtedness, exclusive of interest thereon, in a maximum amount equal to the Aggregate Commitment from time to time under the Credit Agreement which shall be an amount up to $585,000,000 which indebtedness may include advances made at the request of Borrower or Mortgagor or its respective successor(s) in title after this Mortgage is filed of record to the fullest extent and with the highest priority contemplated by law (including disbursements that the Lenders may, but shall not be obligated to, make under this Mortgage, the Loan Documents or any other document with respect thereto) plus interest thereon, and any disbursements made for the enforcement of this Mortgage and any remedies hereunder, payment of taxes, special assessments, utilities or insurance on the Property and interest on such disbursements and all disbursements by Mortgagee pursuant to applicable law (all such indebtedness being hereinafter referred to as the maximum amount secured hereby). This Mortgage shall be valid and have priority to the extent of the maximum amount secured hereby over all subsequent liens and encumbrances, including statutory liens, excepting solely taxes and assessments levied on the Property given priority by law. All future advances under the Credit Agreement, the Notes, this Mortgage and the other Loan Documents shall have the same priority as if the future advance was made on the date that this Mortgage was recorded.
7.13
Mortgagee’s Lien for Service Charge and Expenses. At all times, regardless of whether any Loan proceeds have been disbursed, this Mortgage secures the payment of any and all loan commissions, service charges, liquidated damages, expenses and advances due to or incurred by Mortgagee not to exceed the maximum amount secured hereby.
7.14
Advances. A portion of the loan evidenced by the Notes is a “revolving credit loan”. The lien of the Mortgage shall secure all advances made pursuant to the terms of the Agreement to the same extent as if such future advances were made on the date of execution of the Mortgage, provided that such advances are made within twenty (20) years from the date hereof. Although there may be no indebtedness outstanding on the Note at the time any such advance is made, the lien of the Mortgage as to third persons without actual notice thereof, shall be valid as to all such indebtedness and future advances from the time this Mortgage is filed for record. The total amount of the indebtedness evidenced by the Notes and secured by the Mortgage may increase or decrease from time to time, but the total unpaid balance so secured at any one time shall not exceed the maximum amount specified in Section 7.12 plus interest thereon and any disbursements made for the payment of taxes, special assessments, insurance or other disbursements made pursuant to the terms of this Mortgage, the Credit Agreement, or the other Loan Documents.
7.15
WAIVER OF TRIAL BY JURY. MORTGAGOR HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT THAT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LITIGATION ARISING IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS MORTGAGE, THE NOTE, OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, THE LOAN OR ANY OTHER STATEMENTS OR ACTIONS OF MORTGAGOR OR MORTGAGEE. MORTGAGOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS BEEN REPRESENTED IN THE SIGNING OF THIS MORTGAGE AND IN THE MAKING OF THIS WAIVER BY INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL SELECTED OF ITS OWN FREE WILL, AND THAT IT HAS DISCUSSED THIS WAIVER WITH SUCH LEGAL COUNSEL. MORTGAGOR FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGES
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THAT (i) IT HAS READ AND UNDERSTANDS THE MEANING AND RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS WAIVER, (ii) THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR MORTGAGEE TO MAKE THE LOAN, ENTER INTO THIS MORTGAGE AND EACH OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, AND (iii) THIS WAIVER SHALL BE EFFECTIVE AS TO EACH OF SUCH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AS IF FULLY INCORPORATED THEREIN.
7.16
Incorporation of Credit Agreement. The terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement are incorporated herein by express reference. All advances and indebtedness arising and accruing under the Credit Agreement from time to time, whether or not the resulting indebtedness secured hereby may exceed the face amount of the Notes, shall be secured hereby to the same extent as though said Credit Agreement were fully incorporated in this Mortgage, and the occurrence of any Default under said Credit Agreement shall constitute a Default under this Mortgage entitling Mortgagee to all of the rights and remedies conferred upon Mortgagee by the terms of both this Mortgage and the Credit Agreement. Mortgagor hereby agrees to comply with all covenants and fulfill all obligations set forth in the Credit Agreement which pertain to the Premises as if Mortgagor were a party to such documents. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the terms of this Mortgage and the Credit Agreement, the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement shall in each instance govern and control.
7.17
Inconsistencies. In the event of any inconsistency between this Mortgage and the Credit Agreement, the terms hereof shall be controlling as necessary to create, preserve and/or maintain a valid security interest upon the Property, otherwise the provisions of the Credit Agreement shall be controlling.
7.18
Partial Invalidity; Maximum Allowable Rate of Interest. Mortgagor and Mortgagee intend and believe that each provision in this Mortgage and the Notes comports with all applicable local, state and federal laws and judicial decisions. However, if any provision or provisions, or if any portion of any provision or provisions, in this Mortgage or the Notes is found by a court of law to be in violation of any applicable local, state or federal ordinance, statute, law, administrative or judicial decision, or public policy, and if such court should declare such portion, provision or provisions of this Mortgage and the Notes to be illegal, invalid, unlawful, void or unenforceable as written, then it is the intent both of Mortgagor and Mortgagee that such portion, provision or provisions shall be given force to the fullest possible extent that they are legal, valid and enforceable, that the remainder of this Mortgage and the Notes shall be construed as if such illegal, invalid, unlawful, void or unenforceable portion, provision or provisions were not contained therein, and that the rights, obligations and interest of Mortgagor and Mortgagee under the remainder of this Mortgage and the Notes shall continue in full force and effect. All agreements herein and in the Notes are expressly limited so that in no contingency or event whatsoever, whether by reason of advancement of the proceeds hereof, acceleration of maturity of the unpaid principal balance of the Notes, or otherwise, shall the amount paid or agreed to be paid to the Lenders for the use, forbearance or detention of the money to be advanced hereunder exceed the highest lawful rate permissible under applicable usury laws. If, from any circumstances whatsoever, fulfillment of any provision hereof or of the Notes or any other agreement referred to herein, at the time performance of such provision shall be due, shall involve transcending the limit of validity prescribed by law which a court of competent jurisdiction may deem applicable hereto, then, ipso facto, the obligation to be fulfilled
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shall be reduced to the limit of such validity and if from any circumstance the Lenders shall ever receive as interest an amount which would exceed the highest lawful rate, such amount which would be excessive interest shall be applied to the reduction of the unpaid principal balance due under the Notes and not to the payment of interest.
7.19
UCC Financing Statements. Mortgagor hereby authorizes Mortgagee to file UCC financing statements to perfect Mortgagee’s security interest in any part of the Property. In addition, Mortgagor agrees to sign any and all other documents that Mortgagee deems necessary in its sole discretion to perfect, protect, and continue Mortgagee’s lien and security interest on the Property.
7.20
Declaration of Subordination. At the option of Mortgagee, this Mortgage shall become subject and subordinate, in whole or in part (but not with respect to priority of entitlement to insurance proceeds or any Condemnation Proceeds), to any and all Leases of all or any part of the Premises upon the execution by Mortgagee and recording thereof, at any time hereafter in the appropriate official records of the County wherein the Premises are situated, of a unilateral declaration to that effect.
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Certain Matters Relating to the State. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary the provisions contained in the Rider attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Rider”) are incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein. If there is any inconsistency between the terms contained in this Mortgage and the terms contained in the Rider, the terms in the Rider shall prevail.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Mortgagor has executed this Mortgage as of the date first above written.
Mortgagor:
INLAND WESTERN
, L.L.C.,
a [Delaware limited liability company]
By:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc..
a Maryland corporation, its sole member
By:
Its:
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STATE OF _____________
)
) ss.:
COUNTY OF ___________
)
On this _____ day of [____________], 2011, before me personally came _____________________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that s/he is the __________ of INLAND WESTERN RETAIL REAL ESTATE TRUST, INC., a Maryland Corporation, as the sole member of INLAND WESTERN , L.L.C., a [Delaware limited liability company], the limited liability company described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that s/he signed his name thereto as the authorized act of said corporation in its capacity as sole member of said limited liability company.
Notary Public in and for said
County and State
My Commission Expires:
PREPARED BY AND UPON
RECORDATION RETURN TO:
SNR XXXXXX US LLP
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
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EXHIBIT A
DESCRIPTION OF PREMISES
Parcel ID:
Street Address:
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EXHIBIT B
SPECIFIC STATE PROVISIONS RIDER
Principles of Construction. In the event of any inconsistencies between the terms and conditions of this Exhibit B and the other terms and conditions of this Mortgage, the terms and conditions of this Exhibit B shall control and be binding.
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EXHIBIT J
ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
This Assignment Agreement (this “Assignment Agreement”) between KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (the “Assignor”) and _________________________ (the “Assignee”) is dated as of _____________, 20__. The parties hereto agree as follows:
1.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT. The Assignor is a party to an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated February 4, 2011 (which, as it may be amended, modified, renewed or extended from time to time is herein called the “Credit Agreement”) described in Item 1 of Schedule 1 attached hereto (“Schedule 1”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings attributed to them in the Credit Agreement.
2.
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION. The Assignor hereby sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes from the Assignor, an interest in and to the Assignor’s rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement such that after giving effect to such assignment the Assignee shall have purchased pursuant to this Assignment Agreement the percentage interest specified in Item 3 of Schedule 1 of all outstanding rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Commitment purchased by the Assignee hereunder is set forth in Item 4 of Schedule 1.
3.
EFFECTIVE DATE. The effective date of this Assignment Agreement (the “Effective Date”) shall be the later of the date specified in Item 5 of Schedule 1 or two (2) Business Days (or such shorter period agreed to by the Agent) after a Notice of Assignment substantially in the form of Exhibit “I” attached hereto has been delivered to the Agent. Such Notice of Assignment must include the consent of the Agent required by Section 12.3(i) of the Credit Agreement. In no event will the Effective Date occur if the payments required to be made by the Assignee to the Assignor on the Effective Date under Section 4 hereof are not made on the proposed Effective Date. The Assignor will notify the Assignee of the proposed Effective Date no later than the Business Day prior to the proposed Effective Date. As of the Effective Date, (i) the Assignee shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender under the Loan Documents with respect to the rights and obligations assigned to the Assignee hereunder and (ii) the Assignor shall relinquish its rights and be released from its corresponding obligations under the Loan Documents with respect to the rights and obligations assigned to the Assignee hereunder.
4.
PAYMENTS OBLIGATIONS. On and after the Effective Date, the Assignee shall be entitled to receive from the Agent all payments of principal, interest and fees with respect to the interest assigned hereby. The Assignee shall advance funds directly to the Agent with respect to all Loans and reimbursement payments made on or after the Effective Date with respect to the interest assigned hereby. In consideration for the sale and assignment of Loans hereunder, the Assignee shall pay the Assignor, on the Effective Date, an amount equal to the principal amount of the portion of all Loans assigned to the Assignee hereunder which is outstanding on the Effective Date. The Assignee will promptly remit to the Assignor (i) the portion of any principal payments assigned hereunder and received from the Agent and (ii) any
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amounts of interest on Loans and fees received from the Agent to the extent either (i) or (ii) relate to the portion of the Loans assigned to the Assignee hereunder for periods prior to the Effective Date and have not been previously paid by the Assignee to the Assignor. In the event that either party hereto receives any payment to which the other party hereto is entitled under this Assignment Agreement, then the party receiving such amount shall promptly remit it to the other party hereto.
5.
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ASSIGNOR; LIMITATIONS ON THE ASSIGNOR’S LIABILITY. The Assignor represents and warrants: (a) that it is the legal and beneficial owner of the interest being assigned by it hereunder, (b) that such interest is free and clear of any adverse claim created by the Assignor, and (c) that it has all necessary right and authority to enter into this Assignment. It is understood and agreed that the assignment and assumption hereunder is made without recourse to the Assignor and that the Assignor makes no other representation or warranty of any kind to the Assignee. Neither the Assignor nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents or attorneys shall be responsible for (i) the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or collectability of any Loan Document, including without limitation, documents granting the Assignor and the other Lenders a security interest in assets of the Borrower or any guarantor, (ii) any representation, warranty or statement made in or in connection with any of the Loan Documents, (iii) the financial condition or creditworthiness of the Borrower or any guarantor, (iv) the performance of or compliance with any of the terms or provisions of any of the Loan Documents, (v) inspecting any of the Property, books or records of the Borrowers, (vi) the validity, enforceability, perfection, priority, condition, value or sufficiency of any collateral securing or purporting to secure the Loans or (vii) any mistake, error of judgment, or action taken or omitted to be taken in connection with the Loans or the Loan Documents.
6.
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ASSIGNEE. The Assignee (i) confirms that it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements requested by the Assignee and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment Agreement, (ii) agrees that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, (iii) appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, (iv) agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender, (v) agrees that its payment instructions and notice instructions are as set forth in the attachment to Schedule 1, and (vi) confirms that none of the funds, monies, assets or other consideration being used to make the purchase and assumption hereunder are “plan assets” as defined under ERISA and that its rights, benefits and interests in and under the Loan Documents will not be “plan assets” under ERISA.
7.
INDEMNITY. The Assignee agrees to indemnify and hold the Assignor harmless against any and all losses, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable
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attorneys’ fees) and liabilities incurred by the Assignor in connection with or arising in any manner from the Assignee’s non-performance of the obligations assumed by Assignee under this Assignment Agreement on and after the Effective Date. The Assignor agrees to indemnify and hold the Assignee harmless against any and all losses, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) and liabilities incurred by the Assignee in connection with or arising in any manner from the Assignor’s non-performance of the obligations assigned to Assignee under this Assignment Agreement prior to the Effective Date.
8.
SUBSEQUENT ASSIGNMENTS. After the Effective Date, the Assignee shall have the right pursuant to Section 12.3(i) of the Credit Agreement to assign the rights which are assigned to the Assignee hereunder to any entity or person, provided that (i) any such subsequent assignment does not violate any of the terms and conditions of the Loan Documents or any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction or decree and that any consent required under the terms of the Loan Documents has been obtained and (ii) unless the prior written consent of the Assignor is obtained, the Assignee is not thereby released from its obligations to the Assignor hereunder, if any remain unsatisfied, including, without limitation, its obligations under Sections 4 and 7 hereof.
9.
REDUCTIONS OF AGGREGATE COMMITMENT. If any reduction in the Revolving Commitment occurs between the date of this Assignment Agreement and the Effective Date, the percentage interest specified in Item 3 of Schedule 1 shall remain the same, but the dollar amount purchased shall be recalculated based on the reduced Revolving Commitment.
10.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Assignment Agreement and the attached Notice of Assignment embody the entire agreement and understanding between the parties hereto and supersede all prior agreements and understandings between the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof.
11.
GOVERNING LAW. This Assignment Agreement shall be governed by the internal law, and not the law of conflicts, of the State of [Assignor’s State].
12.
NOTICES. Notices shall be given under this Assignment Agreement in the manner set forth in the Credit Agreement. For the purpose hereof, the addresses of the parties hereto (until notice of a change is delivered) shall be the address set forth in the attachment to Schedule 1.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Assignment Agreement by their duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.
ASSIGNOR:
[
]
By:
Name:
Title:
ASSIGNEE:
[
]
By:
Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE 1
to Assignment Agreement
1.
Description and Date of Credit Agreement:
2.
Date of Assignment Agreement:
, 20__
3.
Amounts (as of date of Item 2 above):
a.
Commitment of Assignor under Credit Agreement.
$
b.
Assignee’s Percentage of Commitment of Assignor
purchased under this Assignment Agreement.**
__________%
c.
Term Loans of Assignor outstanding under
Credit Agreement.
$
d.
Assignee’s Percentage of the Term Loans of
Assignor purchased under this Assignment
Agreement.**
__________%
4.
Amount of Assignor’s Revolving Commitment Purchased under
this Assignment Agreement.
$
5.
Amount of Assignor’s Term Loans purchased under this
Assignment Agreement.
$
6.
Proposed Effective Date:
Accepted and Agreed:
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
By:
By:
Title:
Title:
** Percentage taken to 10 decimal places.
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Attachment to SCHEDULE 1 to ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
Attach Assignor’s Administrative Information Sheet, which must
include notice address for the Assignor and the Assignee
[to be provided by KeyBank]
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EXHIBIT “I”
to Assignment Agreement
NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT
________________, ____
To:
KeyBank National Association
Attention:
Borrower:
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
From:
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR] (the “Assignor”)
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE] (the “Assignee”)
1.
We refer to that Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February 4, 2011 (the “Credit Agreement”) described in Item 1 of Schedule 1 attached hereto (“Schedule 1”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings attributed to them in the Credit Agreement.
2.
This Notice of Assignment (this “Notice”) is given and delivered to the Agent pursuant to Section 12.3(ii) of the Credit Agreement.
3.
The Assignor and the Assignee have entered into an Assignment Agreement, dated as of , (the “Assignment”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Assignor has sold, assigned, delegated and transferred to the Assignee, and the Assignee has purchased, accepted and assumed from the Assignor the percentage interest specified in Item 3 of Schedule 1 of all outstandings, rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement. The Effective Date of the Assignment shall be the later of the date specified in Item 5 of Schedule 1 or two (2) Business Days (or such shorter period as agreed to by the Agent) after this Notice of Assignment and any fee required by Section 12.3(ii) of the Credit Agreement have been delivered to the Agent, provided that the Effective Date shall not occur if any condition precedent agreed to by the Assignor and the Assignee has not been satisfied.
4.
The Assignor and the Assignee hereby give to the Agent notice of the assignment and delegation referred to herein. The Assignor will confer with the Agent before the date specified in Item 5 of Schedule 1 to determine if the Assignment Agreement will become effective on such date pursuant to Section 3 hereof, and will confer with the Agent to determine the Effective Date pursuant to Section 3 hereof if it occurs thereafter. The Assignor
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shall notify the Agent if the Assignment Agreement does not become effective on any proposed Effective Date as a result of the failure to satisfy the conditions precedent agreed to by the Assignor and the Assignee. At the request of the Agent, the Assignor will give the Agent written confirmation of the satisfaction of the conditions precedent.
5.
If Notes are outstanding on the Effective Date, the Assignor and the Assignee request and direct that the Agent prepare and cause the Borrowers to execute and deliver new Notes or, as appropriate, replacements notes, to the Assignor and the Assignee. The Assignor and, if applicable, the Assignee each agree to deliver to the Agent the original Note received by it from the Borrowers upon its receipt of a new Note in the appropriate amount.
6.
The Assignee advises the Agent that notice and payment instructions are set forth in the attachment to Schedule 1.
7.
The Assignee hereby represents and warrants that none of the funds, monies, assets or other consideration being used to make the purchase pursuant to the Assignment are “plan assets” as defined under ERISA and that its rights, benefits, and interests in and under the Loan Documents will not be “plan assets” under ERISA.
8.
The Assignee authorizes the Agent to act as its agent under the Loan Documents in accordance with the terms thereof. The Assignee acknowledges that the Agent has no duty to supply information with respect to the Borrowers or the Loan Documents to the Assignee until the Assignee becomes a party to the Credit Agreement.*
*May be eliminated if Assignee is a party to the Credit Agreement prior to the Effective Date.
NAME OF ASSIGNOR
NAME OF ASSIGNEE
By:
By:
Title:
Title:
ACKNOWLEDGED AND, IF REQUIRED BY THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, CONSENTED TO BY KEYBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS AGENT
By:
Title:
[Attach photocopy of Schedule 1 to Assignment]
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SCHEDULE 1
List of Qualifying Collateral Pool Properties
Property Name | Owner | FEIN No. |
Carrier Towne Crossing Grand Prairie, Texas | Inland Western Grand Prairie Carrier Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Cost Plus World Market Distribution Center II Stockton, California | Inland Western Stockton Airport Way II, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Crown Theater Plaza Hartford, Connecticut | Inland Western Hartford New Park, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
CVS Pharmacy No. 0000 Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx | Inland Western Cave Creek Xxxxx Boulevard, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Diebold Warehouse, Distribution and Service Center Building Green, Ohio | Inland Western Green Global Gateway, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Five Forks Blockbuster Outlot Greenville, South Carolina | Inland Western Greenville Five Forks Outlot, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Five Forks Shopping Center Greenville, South Carolina | Inland Western Greenville Five Forks, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Xxxxx Centennial Plaza Oswego, Illinois | Inland Western Oswego Xxxxx Centennial, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Golfsmith Altamonte Springs, Florida | Inland Western Altamonte Springs State Road, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Greenwich Center Phillipsburg, New Jersey | Inland Western Phillipsburg Greenwich, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Hartford Life Insurance Building Maple Grove, Minnesota | Inland Western Maple Grove Wedgwood, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Hobby Lobby Concord, North Carolina | Inland Western Concord Northlite, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Kohl’s Georgetown, Kentucky | Inland Western Georgetown Magnolia, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Manchester Xxxxxxx Shopping Center Town and Country, Missouri | Inland Western Town and Country Manchester, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx | Inland Western Thousand Oaks, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Xxxxxxx Pass Phase I Gilroy, California | Inland Western Gilroy I, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Page Field Commons Fort Xxxxx, Florida | Inland Western Fort Xxxxx Page Field, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
PetsMart Distribution Center Ottawa, Illinois | Inland Western Ottawa Dayton, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Raytheon Building State College, Pennsylvania | Inland Western State College Science Park DST, a Delaware statutory trust | 00-0000000 |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Scientific Building Kalamazoo, Michigan | Inland Western Kalamazoo WMU, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Ridge Tool Company Building Cambridge, Ohio | Inland Western Cambridge Brick Church, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx – Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx | Town Square Ventures V, L.P., a Texas limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Southpark Xxxxxxx Phase II Austin, Texas | Inland Western Austin Southpark Xxxxxxx II Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx | Inland Western Fort Worth Southwest Crossing Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Xxxxxxx Works Building Westerville, Ohio | Inland Western Westerville Cleveland, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Stateline Station Kansas City, Missouri | Inland Western Kansas City Stateline, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
The Commons at Temecula Temecula, California | Inland Western Temecula Commons, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
The Shoppes at Xxxxxx Township Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania | Xxxxxx Commons, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Wal-Mart Supercenter Blytheville, Arkansas | Inland Western Blytheville, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Owner | FEIN No. |
Inland Western Atlanta Cascade Avenue, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Iowa City Alexander, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Mesa Fiesta, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western New Britain Main, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Xxxxxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western RC-I GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western RC-I LP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western San Antonio Fountainhead Drive Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Grand Prairie Carrier Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Stockton Airport Way II, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Hartford New Park, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Cave Creek Xxxxx Boulevard, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Green Global Gateway, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Greenville Five Forks Outlot, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Greenville Five Forks, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Oswego Xxxxx Centennial, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Altamonte Springs State Road, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Phillipsburg Greenwich, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Maple Grove Wedgwood, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Concord Northlite, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Georgetown Magnolia, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Town and Country Manchester, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Thousand Oaks, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Gilroy I, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Fort Xxxxx Page Field, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Ottawa Dayton, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western State College Science Park DST, a Delaware statutory trust | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Kalamazoo WMU, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Cambridge Brick Church, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Town Square Ventures V, L.P., a Texas limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Austin Southpark Xxxxxxx II Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Fort Worth Southwest Crossing Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Westerville Cleveland, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Kansas City Stateline, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Temecula Commons, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Xxxxxx Commons, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
Inland Western Blytheville, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company | 00-0000000 |
SCHEDULE 3
EXISTING FACILITY LETTERS OF CREDIT
None
SCHEDULE 4
PROSPECTIVE QUALIFYING COLLATERAL POOL PROPERTIES WHICH ARE SINGLE TENANT PROPERTIES
Traveler’s Building, Knoxville, Tennessee
Traveler’s Building Adjacent Parking Lot, Knoxville, Tennessee
Endnotes
(Illinois)