PHYSICIANS REALTY TRUST (a Maryland real estate investment trust) 15,000,000 Common Shares of Beneficial Interest UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT March 13, 2017 Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith...
Exhibit 1.1
Dated: March 13, 2017
PHYSICIANS REALTY TRUST
(a Maryland real estate investment trust)
15,000,000 Common Shares Of Beneficial Interest
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
PHYSICIANS REALTY TRUST
(a Maryland real estate investment trust)
15,000,000 Common Shares of Beneficial Interest
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
March 13, 2017
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC
KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc.
Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx
Incorporated
as Representatives of the several Underwriters
c/o Morgan Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC
0000 Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
c/o KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc.
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000
c/o Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx
Incorporated
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Physicians Realty Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Company”), and
Physicians Realty L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), confirm
their agreement with Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. LLC (“Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx”), KeyBanc Capital Markets
Inc. (“KeyBanc”) and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated (“Xxxxxxx Xxxxx”),
and each of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (collectively, the
“Underwriters,” which term shall also include any underwriter substituted as hereinafter
provided in Section 10 hereof), for whom Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, KeyBanc and Xxxxxxx Xxxxx are
acting as representatives (in such capacity, the “Representatives”), with respect to (i) the sale by
the Company and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the
respective numbers of common shares of beneficial interest, par value $0.01 per share, of the
Company (“Common Shares”) set forth in Schedule A hereto and (ii) the grant by the Company
to the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the option described in Section 2(b)
hereof to purchase all or any part of 2,250,000 additional Common Shares. The aforesaid
15,000,000 Common Shares (the “Initial Securities”) to be purchased by the Underwriters and all
or any part of the 2,250,000 Common Shares subject to the option described in Section 2(b)
hereof (the “Option Securities”) are herein called, collectively, the “Securities.”
The Company understands that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of the
Securities as soon as the Representatives deem advisable after this underwriting agreement (this
“Agreement”) has been executed and delivered.
The Company and the Operating Partnership have filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”) an “automatic shelf registration statement” under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), on Form S-3ASR (No. 333-216214), including a base
prospectus, covering the registration of certain securities, including the Securities, under the 1933
Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “1933 Act Regulations”), each of
which became effective upon filing under Rule 462(e) under the 1933 Act Regulations (“Rule
462(e)”). Such registration statement, at any given time, means such registration statement, as
amended by any post-effective amendments thereto at such time, including the exhibits and any
schedules thereto at such time, the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act at such time, and the
information and documents otherwise deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B under
the 1933 Act Regulations (“Rule 430B”), including any prospectus supplement relating to the
Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations
(“Rule 424(b)”) at such time, is referred to herein as the “Registration Statement.”
Each preliminary prospectus, including the base prospectus and each preliminary
prospectus supplement, related to the offering of the Securities and filed with the Commission
pursuant to Rule 424(b), including the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act, are collectively referred to
herein as a “preliminary prospectus.” Promptly after execution and delivery of this Agreement,
the Company will prepare and file a final prospectus relating to the Securities in accordance with
the provisions of Rule 424(b) under the 1933 Act. The final prospectus, including the base
prospectus and the final prospectus supplement, in the form first furnished or made available to
the Underwriters for use in connection with the offering of the Securities, including the documents
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 and of Form
S-3 under the 1933 Act, are collectively referred to herein as the “Prospectus.” For purposes of
this Agreement, all references to the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the
Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing shall be deemed to include
the copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and
Retrieval system or any successor system (“XXXXX”).
As used in this Agreement:
“Applicable Time” means 7:04 p.m., New York City time, on March 13, 2017.
“General Disclosure Package” means any Issuer General Use Free Writing
Prospectuses issued at or prior to the Applicable Time, the most recent preliminary prospectus
(including any documents incorporated therein by reference) that is distributed to investors prior
to the Applicable Time and the information included on Schedule B-1 hereto, all considered
together.
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as
defined in Rule 433 of the 1933 Act Regulations (“Rule 433”), including without limitation any
“free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations (“Rule 405”))
relating to the Securities that is (i) required to be filed with the Commission by the Company, (ii)
a “road show that is a written communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i), whether
or not required to be filed with the Commission, or (iii) exempt from filing with the Commission
pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) because it contains a description of the Securities or of the offering
that does not reflect the final terms, in each case in the form filed or required to be filed with the
Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant
to Rule 433(g).
“Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors (other than a “bona
fide electronic road show,” as defined in Rule 433), as evidenced by its being specified in Schedule
B-2 hereto.
“Issuer Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that is not an Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus.
“Properties” means the real properties described in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus as being owned by the Operating Partnership
directly or indirectly through its subsidiaries.
All references in this Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other
information which is “contained,” “included” or “stated” in the Registration Statement, any
preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or other references of like import) shall be deemed to
include all such financial statements and schedules and other information which is incorporated
by reference in or otherwise deemed by 1933 Act Regulations to be a part of or included in the
Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, prior to
the execution and delivery of this Agreement; and all references in this Agreement to amendments
or supplements to the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus shall
include the filing of any document under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“1934 Act”), which is incorporated by reference in or otherwise deemed by 1933 Act Regulations
to be a part of or included in the Registration Statement, such preliminary prospectus or the
Prospectus, as the case may be, at or after the execution and delivery of this Agreement.
SECTION 1. Representations and Warranties.
(a) Representations and Warranties by the Company and the Operating Partnership.
The Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to each
Underwriter as of the date hereof, the Applicable Time and the Closing Time (as defined below),
and agree with each Underwriter, as follows:
(i) Registration Statement and Prospectuses. The Company meets the
requirements for use of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act. The Registration Statement is an
“automatic shelf registration statement” (as defined in Rule 405). The Registration
Statement, and any post-effective amendment thereto, became effective on filing under
Rule 462(e). No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has
been issued under the 1933 Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of any
preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for any of
those purposes have been instituted or are pending or, to the Company’s knowledge,
contemplated. The Company has complied with each request (if any) from the
Commission for additional information and there are no outstanding or unresolved
comments from the Commission or its staff.
Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at
the time of its effectiveness and at each deemed effective date with respect to the
Underwriters pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2) under the 1933 Act Regulations, complied in all
material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations,
including with respect to all financial statement requirements. Each preliminary
prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, at the time each was
filed with the Commission, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the
1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations. Each preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus and
any amendment or supplement thereto, at the time each was filed with the Commission,
complied in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act
Regulations. Each preliminary prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in
connection with this offering and the Prospectus was or will be identical to the
electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to XXXXX,
except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
The documents incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus, when they became
effective or at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, as the case
may be, complied or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934
Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission under the 1934 Act (the “1934 Act
Regulations”).
(ii) Accurate Disclosure. Neither the Registration Statement nor any
amendment thereto, at its effective time, at the Closing Time or at any Date of Delivery,
contained, contains or will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits
or will omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading. As of the Applicable Time, neither (A) the General
Disclosure Package nor (B) any individual Issuer Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus,
when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included, includes or will
include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Neither the Prospectus nor
any amendment or supplement thereto (including any prospectus wrapper), as of its issue
date, at the time of any filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), at the Closing
Time or at any Date of Delivery, included, includes or will include an untrue statement of
a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading. The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, at the time the Registration Statement
became effective or when such documents incorporated by reference were filed with the
Commission, as the case may be, when read together with the other information in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may
be, did not and will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading.
The representations and warranties in this subsection shall not apply to statements
in or omissions from the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) made in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any
Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein. For purposes of this
Agreement, the only information so furnished shall be the information in the first paragraph
under the heading “Underwriting- Commissions and Discounts,” the information in the
first, second, third and fourth paragraphs under the heading “Underwriting-Price
Stabilization, Short Positions” and the information under the heading “Underwriting-
Electronic Distribution” in each case contained in the Prospectus (collectively, the
“Underwriter Information”).
(iii) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. No Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein, and any
preliminary or other prospectus deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded
or modified.
(iv) Well-Known Seasoned Issuer. (A) At the time of filing of the
Registration Statement, (B) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the
purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act (whether such amendment
was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the 1934 Act or form of prospectus), (C) at the time the Company or any person acting
on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c) under the 0000 Xxx)
made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption of Rule 163 under
the 1933 Act and (D) at the Applicable Time, the Company was and is a “well-known
seasoned issuer” (as defined in Rule 405). The Securities, since their registration on the
Registration Statement, have been and remain eligible for registration by the Company on
a Rule 405 “automatic shelf registration statement” and the Company has not received from
the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations
objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration statement form.
(v) Company Not Ineligible Issuer. At the time of filing the Registration
Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the earliest time thereafter that the
Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of
Rule 164(h)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations) of the Securities and at the date hereof, the
Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405, without taking
account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not
necessary that the Company be considered an ineligible issuer.
(vi) [Reserved]
(vii) Independent Accountants. The accountants who certified the financial
statements and supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are independent public accountants as required by
the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1934 Act Regulations and the Public
Accounting Oversight Board.
(viii) Rule 163. Any offer that is a written communication relating to the
Common Shares made by the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the
meaning, for this sentence only, of Rule 163(c) under the 0000 Xxx) prior to the filing of
the Registration Statement has been filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule
163 under the 1933 Act and otherwise complied with the requirements of Rule 163 under
the 1933 Act, including without limitation the legending requirement, to qualify such offer
for the exemption from Section 5(c) of the 1933 Act provided by Rule 163.
(ix) Financial Statements; Non-GAAP Financial Measures. The financial
statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, together with the related schedules and notes,
present fairly in all material respects: the financial position of the Company, the Operating
Partnership and their respective consolidated subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at the
dates indicated and the statement of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the
Company, the Operating Partnership and their respective consolidated subsidiaries for the
periods specified, except as may be stated in the related notes thereto; said financial
statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except
as may be stated in the related notes thereto. The supporting schedules, if any, present fairly
in all material respects and in accordance with GAAP the information required to be stated
therein. The selected financial data and the summary financial information included in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly
in all material respects the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis
consistent with that of the audited financial statements included therein. The pro forma
financial statements and the related notes thereto included in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects
the information shown therein, have been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s
rules and guidelines with respect to pro forma financial statements and have been properly
compiled on the basis described therein, and the Company has determined the assumptions
used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments used therein are
appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein. Except
as included therein, no historical or pro forma financial statements or supporting schedules
are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus under the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act
Regulations or the 1934 Act Regulations. All disclosures contained in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or incorporated by reference,
regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and
regulations of the Commission) comply with Regulation G of the 1934 Act and Item 10 of
Regulation S-K of the 1933 Act, to the extent applicable. The interactive data in eXtensible
Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, if any, fairly presents the information
called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the
Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.
(x) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Except as otherwise stated
therein, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (A) there has been no
material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the management,
earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company, the Operating Partnership
and their respective subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the
ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”), (B) there have been no
transactions entered into by the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their
respective subsidiaries, other than those in the ordinary course of business, which are
material with respect to the Company, the Operating Partnership and their respective
subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, and (C) except for quarterly dividends on the
Common Shares, in amounts per share that are consistent with past practice, and regular
quarterly distributions on the common and preferred units of partnership interests in the
Operating Partnership (collectively, the “OP Units”), in each case in amounts per share that
are consistent with past practice, there has been no dividend or other distribution of any
kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its shares of beneficial interest.
(xi) Good Standing of the Company. The Company has been duly organized
and is validly existing as a real estate investment trust in good standing under the laws of
the State of Maryland and has trust power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement, and, as the sole general partner of the Operating
Partnership, to cause the Operating Partnership to enter into and perform the Operating
Partnership’s obligations under this Agreement; and the Company is duly qualified as a
foreign real estate investment trust to transact business and is in good standing in each other
jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or
leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to
be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xii) Good Standing of the Operating Partnership. The Operating Partnership
has been duly formed and is validly existing as a limited partnership in good standing under
the laws of the State of Delaware and has partnership power and authority to own or lease,
as the case may be, and to operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement; and the Operating Partnership is duly qualified as a
foreign partnership to transact business and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction
in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of
property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good
standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company is the sole general
partner of the Operating Partnership. The aggregate percentage interests of the Company
in the Operating Partnership is, and at the Closing Time, will be, as set forth in the
Prospectus; provided, that to the extent that any portion of the option to purchase additional
shares described in Section 2(b) hereof is exercised at the Closing Time, the percentage
interest of the Company in the Operating Partnership will be adjusted accordingly. The
Second Amended and Restated Partnership Agreement of the Operating Partnership has
been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Company
and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the
Company in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that such enforceability may
be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization,
moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and remedies
generally, and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity and, with respect
to rights to indemnity and contribution thereunder, except as rights may be limited by
applicable law or policies underlying such law.
(xiii) Good Standing of Subsidiaries. Each “significant subsidiary” of the
Company or the Operating Partnership (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation
S-X) (each, a “Subsidiary” and, collectively, the “Subsidiaries”) has been duly organized
and is validly existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or organization, has corporate or similar power and authority to own, lease
and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and is duly qualified to
transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is
required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of
business, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not result
in a Material Adverse Effect. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, all of the issued and outstanding
capital stock of each Subsidiary has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid
and non-assessable and is owned by the Operating Partnership, directly or through
subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance,
claim or equity. None of the outstanding capital stock of any Subsidiary were issued in
violation of the preemptive or similar rights of any securityholder of such Subsidiary.
(xiv) Capitalization. The authorized, issued and outstanding common shares
of beneficial interest of the Company are as set forth in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus in the column entitled “Actual” under the
caption “Capitalization” (except for subsequent issuances of Common Shares, if any,
pursuant to this Agreement, pursuant to reservations, agreements or employee benefit plans
referred to in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus or pursuant to the exercise of convertible securities or options referred to in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including
common and preferred units of partnership interests in the Operating Partnership
(collectively, the “OP Units”)). The issued and outstanding common shares of beneficial
interest of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid
and non-assessable.
None of the outstanding common shares of beneficial interest of the Company were
issued in violation of the preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of the
Company. The issued and outstanding OP Units have been duly authorized and validly
issued and are fully paid. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, there are no other OP Units outstanding as of the date hereof other than those
owned by the Company. Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, there are no outstanding options, warrants or other rights to purchase,
agreements or other obligations to issue, or rights to convert any obligations into or
exchange any securities or interests for shares of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ capital
stock, including OP Units or other ownership interests of the Operating Partnership.
(xv) Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company and the Operating Partnership.
(xvi) Authorization and Description of Securities. The Securities to be
purchased by the Underwriters from the Company have been duly authorized for issuance
and sale to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by
the Company pursuant to this Agreement against payment of the consideration set forth
herein, will be validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable; and the issuance of the
Securities is not subject to the preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of
the Company. The Common Shares conform in all material respects to all statements
relating thereto contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus and such description conforms in all material respects to the rights set
forth in the instruments defining the same. No holder of Securities will be subject to
personal liability solely by reason of being such a holder.
(xvii) Registration Rights. There are no persons with registration rights or
other similar rights to have any securities registered for sale pursuant to the Registration
Statement or otherwise registered for sale or sold by the Company under the 1933 Act
pursuant to this Agreement, other than those rights that have been disclosed in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(xviii) Absence of Violations, Defaults and Conflicts. None of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is (A) in violation of its declaration of trust (or charter), by-laws or
similar organizational document, (B) in default in the performance or observance of any
obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any material contract, indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or
instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any
of them may be bound or to which any of the properties or assets of the Company or any
of its subsidiaries is subject (collectively, “Agreements and Instruments”), except for such
defaults that would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect, or
(C) in violation of any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any
arbitrator, court, governmental body, regulatory body, administrative agency or other
authority, body or agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries
or any of their respective properties, assets or operations (each, a “Governmental Entity”),
except for such violations that would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material
Adverse Effect. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the
Securities and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described therein
under the caption “Use of Proceeds”) and compliance by the Company and the Operating
Partnership with their respective obligations hereunder have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate or partnership action (as applicable) and do not and will not, whether
with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute
a breach of, or default or Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the
creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of
the Company or any subsidiary pursuant to, the Agreements and Instruments (except for
such conflicts, breaches, defaults or Repayment Events or liens, charges or encumbrances
that would not reasonably be expected, singly or in the aggregate, to result in a Material
Adverse Effect), nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the
declaration of trust (or charter), by-laws or similar organizational document of the
Company or any subsidiary or any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or
decree of any Governmental Entity. As used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event
or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of
indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the
repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the
Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(xix) Absence of Labor Dispute. No labor dispute with the employees of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is
imminent, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by
the employees of any of its or any subsidiary’s principal suppliers, manufacturers,
customers or contractors, which, in either case, would reasonably be expected to result in
a Material Adverse Effect.
(xx) ERISA. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or as would not reasonably be expected,
individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, (A) each employee
benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), that is maintained, administered or
contributed to by the Company, the Operating Partnership or any member of their
Controlled Group (defined as any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) (1) under
common control within the meaning of Section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA with the Company
or the Operating Partnership or (2) which together with the Company or the Operating
Partnership is treated as a single employer under Section 414(t) of the Code), for employees
or former employees of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of member of their
Controlled Group (a “Plan”) has been maintained in compliance in all material respects
with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations,
including, but not limited to, ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the “Code”); (B) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA
or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any Plan, excluding transactions
effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption, (C)(1) no Plan is subject to
the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA or (2) if a Plan is
subject to such funding rules and Title IV of ERISA, no failure to satisfy the obligations
under such rules has occurred or exists with respect to such Plan, no “reportable event”
(within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA) has occurred with respect to such Plan,
and no event or condition has occurred with respect to such Plan that would give rise to
liability under Title IV of ERISA, and (D)(1) no Plan is a “multiemployer plan” (as defined
in Section 4011(c)(3) of ERISA) or (2) if a Plan is a “multiemployer plan,” no event or
condition has occurred with respect to such Plan that would give rise to any liability for the
Company or the Operating Partnership.
(xxi) Absence of Proceedings. Except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no action, suit,
proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any Governmental Entity now
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against or affecting the
Company or any of its subsidiaries, which would reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, or which would reasonably be expected to materially and
adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement or
the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder; and the aggregate of all
pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company or any such subsidiary
is a party or of which any of their respective properties or assets is the subject which are
not described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, would not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxii) Accuracy of Exhibits. There are no contracts or documents which are
required to be described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or
the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which have not been
so described and filed as required.
(xxiii) Absence of Further Requirements. No filing with, or authorization,
approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any Governmental
Entity is necessary or required for the performance by the Company or any subsidiary of
its obligations hereunder, in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities
hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except
such as have been already obtained or as may be required under the 1933 Act, the 1933
Act Regulations, the rules of the New York Stock Exchange, state securities laws or the
rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”).
(xxiv) Possession of Licenses and Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries
possess such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively,
“Governmental Licenses”) issued by the appropriate Governmental Entities necessary to
conduct the business now operated by them, except where the failure so to possess would
not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its
subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms and conditions of all Governmental Licenses,
except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a
Material Adverse Effect. All of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and
effect, except when the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such
Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any
Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable
decision, ruling or finding, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(xxv) Real Property. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Operating Partnership, directly or
indirectly through its subsidiaries, has good and marketable title (or in the case of ground
leases, a valid leasehold interest) to all real property owned by them and good title to all
other properties owned by it, directly or indirectly through its subsidiaries, in each case,
free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, claims, restrictions or
encumbrances of any kind except such as (A) are described in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or (B) do not, singly or in the aggregate,
materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere materially with the use
made and proposed to be made of such property by the Operating Partnership, directly or
indirectly through its subsidiary that owns such property; and all of the leases and subleases
material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise,
and under which the Operating Partnership, directly or indirectly through one of its
subsidiaries, holds Properties, are in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any
of its subsidiaries has received any written notice of any material claim of any sort that has
been asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries by anyone adverse to the rights
of the Company or any subsidiary under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above,
or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or such subsidiary to the continued
possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease. Except as
otherwise set forth in or described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, the mortgages and deeds of trust encumbering the Properties
are not convertible into debt or equity securities of the entity owning such Property or of
the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and such mortgages and deeds of trust will not be
cross-defaulted or cross-collateralized to any property not owned, directly or indirectly, in
whole or in part, by the Operating Partnership. To the knowledge of the Company and the
Operating Partnership, none of the tenants under any lease of space at any of the Properties
that, singly or in the aggregate, is material to the Company and its subsidiaries considered
as one enterprise is the subject of bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceedings. None
of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has received from any Governmental Entity any
written notice of any condemnation of or zoning change materially affecting any Property
or any part thereof, and the Company has no knowledge of any such condemnation or
zoning change which is threatened and, in each case, which if consummated would
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Each of the Properties
complies in all material respects with all applicable codes, ordinances, laws and regulations
(including without limitation, building and zoning codes, laws and regulations and laws
relating to access to the Properties), except for failures to the extent disclosed in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and except for
such failures to comply that would not individually or in the aggregate reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its
subsidiaries has received written notice of proposed material special assessment or any
proposed change in any property tax, zoning or land use law or availability of water
affecting any Property that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus, the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries has obtained, on or
prior to the date hereof, one or more title insurance policies on, whether directly or through
assignment or endorsements, or a so-called “fairway-endorsement” on existing title
policies covering, the fee interests (or leasehold interests as the case may be) from a
nationally recognized title insurance company, or, if such title policy has not been issued,
a binding commitment by such title insurance company to issue such a policy, which
policies include commercially reasonable exceptions, with coverage in such amounts as
are commercially reasonable for the assets owned or leased by the Company and that are
consistent with the types and amounts of insurance typically maintained by owners of
similar properties, and such title insurance policies, fairway endorsements or binding
commitments, as the case may be, are in full force and effect in all material respects. Except
as would not, individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, there are no encroachments upon any Property by improvements on an
adjacent property, and none of the improvements on any Property encroach on any adjacent
property, streets or alleys. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is
a party to any material lease that is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries holds any
Property under a ground lease, and true and complete copies of each ground lease described
in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus have
been provided to the Underwriters or their counsel. To the knowledge of the Company and
the Operating Partnership, all real property owned or leased by the Company or a
Subsidiary is free of material structural defects and all building systems contained therein
are in good working order in all material respects, subject to ordinary wear and tear or, in
each instance, the Company has created an adequate reserve to effect reasonably required
repairs, maintenance and capital expenditures; to the knowledge of the Company and the
Operating Partnership, water, storm water, sanitary sewer, electricity and telephone service
are all available at the property lines of such property over duly dedicated streets or
perpetual easements of record benefiting such property; except as described in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, to the
knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, there is no pending or
threatened special assessment, tax reduction proceeding or other action that, individually
or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to increase or decrease the real property
taxes or assessments of any of such property, that, individually or in the aggregate, would
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the
Company and the Operating Partnership, except as set forth in or described in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, including as
may be reflected in the pro forma financial statements, and except as would not,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected have a Material Adverse Effect:
(A) no rentals or other amounts due under any lease have been paid more than one (1)
month in advance; (B) no tenant has asserted in writing any defense or set-off against the
payment of rent in connection with any lease nor has any tenant contested any tax,
operating cost or other escalation payment or occupancy charge, or any other amounts
payable under its leases; (C) all tenants, licensees, franchisees or other parties under any
lease, exhibit, schedule, amendment or other document related to the lease of space at the
Properties (the “Leases”) are in possession of their respective premises; (D) none of the
Leases has been assigned, mortgaged, pledged, sublet, hypothecated or otherwise
encumbered, except in connection with secured debt described in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; (E) none of the Company
or any of its subsidiaries has waived any material provision under any of the Leases; (F)
there are no uncured events of default, or events that with the giving of notice or passage
of time, or both, would constitute an event of default, by any tenant under any of the terms
and provisions of the Leases; and (G) no tenant under any of the Leases and no third party
has a right of first refusal or other right to purchase the premises demised under such Lease.
(xxvi) Possession of Intellectual Property. The Company and its subsidiaries
have access to adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how
(including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or
confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks, trade names
or other intellectual property (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”) necessary to carry
on the business now operated by them, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries
has received any notice or is otherwise aware of any infringement of or conflict with
asserted rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property or of any facts or
circumstances which would render any Intellectual Property invalid or inadequate to
protect the interest of the Company or any of its subsidiaries therein, and which
infringement or conflict (if the subject of any unfavorable decision, ruling or finding) or
invalidity or inadequacy, singly or in the aggregate, would result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(xxvii) No Acquisitions or Dispositions. (i) There are no contracts, letters of
intent, term sheets, agreements, arrangements or understandings with respect to the direct
or indirect acquisition or disposition by any of the Company or its subsidiaries of interests
in assets or real property that are required to be described in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus that are not so described; and (ii) except
as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor
any of its subsidiaries or Predecessor Entities (or subsidiary thereof) has sold any real
property to a third party during the immediately preceding twelve (12) calendar months,
except for such sales as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(xxviii) Credit Agreements; Mortgages; Deeds of Trust. The Company and the
Operating Partnership have provided to the Representatives true and complete copies of all
credit agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, guaranties, side letters, and other material
documents evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to any secured or unsecured
indebtedness of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective
subsidiaries, and none of the Company, Operating Partnership and their respective
subsidiaries that is party to any such document is in default thereunder, nor has an event
occurred which with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would become a
default by any of them under any such document.
(xxix) Environmental Laws. Except as described in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or would not, singly or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law,
rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or
administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order,
consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the
environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land
surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations
relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes,
toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products, asbestos-
containing materials or mold (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture,
processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of
Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (B) the Company and its
subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable
Environmental Laws and are each in compliance with their requirements, (C) there are no
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, threatened
administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens,
notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any
Environmental Law against the Company or any of its subsidiaries and (D) to the
knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, there are no events or
circumstances that would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-
up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or Governmental
Entity, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to Hazardous
Materials or any Environmental Laws. To the knowledge of the Company or the Operating
Partnership, there have been no and are no (i) aboveground or underground storage tanks,
(ii) polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”) or PCB-containing equipment, (iii) asbestos or
asbestos containing materials, (iv) lead based paints, (v) dry-cleaning facilities, or (vi) wet
lands, in each case in, on, under, or adjacent to any Property or other assets owned by the
Company or its subsidiaries the existence of which has had, or is reasonably expected to
have, a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxx) Accounting Controls and Disclosure Controls. Except as described in
the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the
Company maintains effective internal control over financial reporting (as defined under
Rule 13-a15 and 15d-15 under the 1934 Act Regulations) and a system of internal
accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (A) transactions are
executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (B)
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (C) access to assets is
permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (D) the
recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable
intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (E) the
interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in
the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly
present the information called for in all material respects and are prepared in accordance
with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as described in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, since the end
of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (1) no material weakness
in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and
(2) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting. The Company maintains an effective system of disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15 and Rule 15d-15 under the 1934 Act Regulations)
that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in
the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized
and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, and
is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal
executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to
allow timely decisions regarding disclosure.
(xxxi) Compliance with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. There is not and there has
been no failure on the part of the Company or any of the Company’s trustees or officers,
in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with any provision of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection
therewith (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”) with which the Company is required to comply,
including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.
(xxxii) Federal Tax Status. Commencing with its short taxable year ending
December 31, 2013, the Company has been organized and operated in conformity with the
requirements for qualification and taxation as a real estate investment trust (a “REIT”)
under the Code, and its proposed method of operation will enable it to continue to meet the
requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code. All statements
regarding the Company’s qualification and taxation as a REIT and descriptions of the
Company’s organization and method of operation (inasmuch as they relate to the
Company’s qualification and taxation as a REIT) set forth in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are accurate and fair summaries of the
legal or tax matters described therein in all material respects. The Operating Partnership
is treated as a partnership and not as an association taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal
income tax purposes. No assessment in respect of U.S. federal income taxes has been made
to date against the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of the Subsidiaries that
would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxxiii) Payment of Taxes. All United States federal income tax returns of the
Company and its subsidiaries required by law to be filed have been filed, except insofar as
the failure to file such returns would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, and all taxes shown by such returns or otherwise assessed, which are due
and payable, have been paid, except taxes and assessments against which appeals have
been or will be promptly taken and as to which adequate reserves have been provided. The
Company and its subsidiaries required by law to file tax returns have filed all other tax
returns that are required to have been filed by them pursuant to applicable foreign, state,
local or other law except insofar as the failure to file such returns would not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and has paid all taxes due pursuant to such
returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Company and its subsidiaries, except
for such taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves
have been established by the Company. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of
the Company in respect of any income and corporation tax liability for any years not finally
determined are adequate to meet any assessments or re-assessments for additional income
tax for any years not finally determined, except to the extent of any inadequacy that would
not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xxxiv) Insurance. The Company and its subsidiaries carry or are entitled to the
benefits of insurance, with financially sound and reputable insurers, in such amounts and
covering such risks as is generally maintained by companies of established repute engaged
in the same or similar business, and all such insurance is in full force and effect. Neither
the Company nor the Operating Partnership has any reason to believe that it or any of its
subsidiaries will not be able (A) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such
policies expire or (B) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be
necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would
not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither of the Company nor any of its subsidiaries
has been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied.
(xxxv) Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor the Operating
Partnership is required, and upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein
contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus will not be
required, to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
(xxxvi) Absence of Manipulation. Neither the Company nor any affiliate of the
Company has taken, nor will the Company or any affiliate take, directly or indirectly, any
action which is designed, or would be expected, to cause or result in, or which constitutes,
the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate
the sale or resale of the Securities or to result in a violation of Regulation M under the 1934
Act; provided that no representation is made in this subsection with respect to the actions
of the Underwriters.
(xxxvii) No Unlawful Payments. None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries,
or, to the knowledge of the Company, any trustee, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or
other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is aware of or has
taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations
thereunder (the “FCPA”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any
means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer,
payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property,
gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign
official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official
thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA and the
Company and its subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company, its affiliates have
conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted, maintain and
enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to
continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.
(xxxviii) Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable
financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign
Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all
jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules,
regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any Governmental Entity
(collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”); and no action, suit or proceeding by or
before any Governmental Entity involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with
respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the
Company, threatened.
(xxxix) OFAC. None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries, or, to the
knowledge of the Company, any trustee, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or
representative of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is an individual or entity
(“Person”) currently the subject or target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the
United States Government, including, without limitation, the U.S. Department of the
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the United Nations Security
Council (“UNSC”), the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”), or other
relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company or any of its
subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of
Sanctions; and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the sale of
the Securities, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any of its
subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other Person, to fund any activities of or business
with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is the
subject of Sanctions or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any Person
(including any Person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor,
investor or otherwise) of Sanctions.
(xl) Distribution of Offering Material. The Company has not distributed, and
prior to the later of the Closing Time and the completion of the distribution of the
Securities, will not distribute, any offering material in connection with the offering or sale
of the Securities other than any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus, any issuer free
writing prospectus, or any other materials, if any, permitted by the 1933 Act and in each
case only with the prior approval of the Representatives.
(xli) No Equity Awards. Except for grants pursuant to equity incentive plans
disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, the Company has not granted to any person or entity, a compensatory stock
option or other compensatory equity-based award to purchase or receive common shares
of beneficial interest of the Company or common units of partnership interests in the
Operating Partnership pursuant to an equity-based compensation plan or otherwise.
(xlii) No Finder’s Fee. Except for the Underwriters’ discounts and
commissions in connection with the offering of the Securities contemplated herein or as
otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, the Company has not incurred any liability for any brokerage commission,
finder’s fees or similar payments in connection with the offering of the Securities
contemplated hereby.
(xliii) Lending Relationship. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company (i) does not have any
material lending or other relationship with any bank or lending affiliate of any Underwriter
and (ii) does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities to repay
any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of any Underwriter.
(xliv) No Association with FINRA. Except for X.X. Xxxxxxx and Company and
its affiliates and as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor, to its knowledge, any of its affiliates (A) is
required to register as a “broker” or “dealer” in accordance with the provisions of the 1934
Act or the rules and regulations thereunder, or (B) directly, or indirectly through one or
more intermediaries, controls or is under common control with any member firm of
FINRA.
(xlv) Forward-Looking Statement. No forward-looking statement (within the
meaning of Section 27A of the 1933 Act and Section 21E of the 0000 Xxx) contained in
any of the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus has
been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in
good faith.
(xlvi) Maintenance of Rating. Except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and except as would not
reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the sale of the Securities to
the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, neither the Company nor its subsidiaries has
any debt securities or preferred stock that is rated by any “nationally recognized statistical
rating agency” (as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Section 3(a)(62)
under the 1934 Act).
(xlvii) Statistical and Market-Related Data. Any statistical and market-related
data included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes, after
reasonable inquiry, to be reliable and accurate in all material respects and, to the extent
required, the Company has obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such
sources.
(b) Officer’s Certificates. Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company
delivered to the Representatives or to counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed a
representation and warranty by the Company and the Operating Partnership to each Underwriter
as to the matters covered thereby.
SECTION 2. Sale and Delivery to Underwriters; Closing.
(a) Initial Securities. On the basis of the representations and warranties herein
contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to
each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees
to purchase from the Company, at the price per share set forth in Schedule A, that number of Initial
Securities set forth in Schedule A opposite the name of such Underwriter, plus any additional
number of Initial Securities which such Underwriter may become obligated to purchase pursuant
to the provisions of Section 10 hereof, subject, in each case, to such adjustments among the
Underwriters as the Representatives in their discretion shall make to eliminate any sales or
purchases of fractional shares.
(b) Option Securities. In addition, on the basis of the representations and warranties
herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company hereby
grants an option to the Underwriters, severally and not jointly, to purchase up to an additional
2,250,000 Common Shares, at the price per share set forth in Schedule A, less an amount per share
equal to any dividends or distributions declared by the Company and payable on the Initial
Securities but not payable on the Option Securities. The option hereby granted may be exercised
for 30 days after the date hereof and may be exercised in whole or in part at any time from time to
time upon notice by the Representatives to the Company setting forth the number of Option
Securities as to which the several Underwriters are then exercising the option and the time and
date of payment and delivery for such Option Securities. Any such time and date of delivery (a
“Date of Delivery”) shall be determined by the Representatives, but shall not be later than seven
full business days after the exercise of said option or, unless otherwise agreed upon by the
Representatives and the Company, earlier than two full business days after exercise of said option
(only to the extent such exercise occurs after the Date of Delivery for the Initial Securities), nor in
any event prior to the Closing Time. If the option is exercised as to all or any portion of the Option
Securities, each of the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, will purchase that proportion
of the total number of Option Securities then being purchased which the number of Initial
Securities set forth in Schedule A opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the total number
of Initial Securities, subject, in each case, to such adjustments as the Representatives in their
discretion shall make to eliminate any sales or purchases of fractional shares.
(c) Payment. Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of certificates for, the
Initial Securities shall be made at the offices of Xxxxx Day, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx
00000, or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives and the Company, at
9:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third (fourth, if the pricing occurs after 4:30 P.M. (New
York City time) on any given day) business day after the date hereof (unless postponed in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10), or such other time not later than ten business days
after such date as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives and the Company (such time and
date of payment and delivery being herein called “Closing Time”).
In addition, in the event that any or all of the Option Securities are purchased by the
Underwriters, payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of certificates for, such Option
Securities shall be made at the above-mentioned offices, or at such other place as shall be agreed
upon by the Representatives and the Company, on each Date of Delivery as specified in the notice
from the Representatives to the Company.
Payment shall be made to the Company by wire transfer of immediately available funds to
a bank account designated by the Company against delivery to the Representatives for the
respective accounts of the Underwriters of certificates for the Securities to be purchased by them.
It is understood that each Underwriter has authorized the Representatives, for its account, to accept
delivery of, receipt for, and make payment of the purchase price for, the Initial Securities and the
Option Securities, if any, which it has agreed to purchase. The Representatives, not as
representatives of the Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment of the
purchase price for the Initial Securities or the Option Securities, if any, to be purchased by any
Underwriter whose funds have not been received by the Closing Time or the relevant Date of
Delivery, as the case may be, but such payment shall not relieve such Underwriter from its
obligations hereunder.
SECTION 3. Covenants of the Company. The Company and the Operating
Partnership, jointly and severally, covenant with each Underwriter as follows:
(a) Compliance with Securities Regulations and Commission Requests. The Company,
subject to Section 3(b), will comply with the requirements of Rule 430B, and will notify the
Representatives promptly, and confirm the notice in writing, (i) when any post-effective
amendment to the Registration Statement shall become effective or any amendment or supplement
to the Prospectus shall have been filed, (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission,
(iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any
amendment or supplement to the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference
therein or for additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment or of
any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, or of
the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of
the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes or of any examination
pursuant to Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the 1933 Act concerning the Registration Statement and (v) if
the Company becomes the subject of a proceeding under Section 8A of the 1933 Act in connection
with the offering of the Securities. The Company will effect all filings required under Rule 424(b),
in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) (without reliance on Rule
424(b)(8)), and will take such steps as it deems necessary to ascertain promptly whether the form
of prospectus transmitted for filing under Rule 424(b) was received for filing by the Commission
and, in the event that it was not, it will promptly file such prospectus. The Company will make
every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order, prevention or suspension and, if
any such order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.
(b) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws. The Company will comply with the
1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations so as to permit
the completion of the distribution of the Securities as contemplated in this Agreement and in the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. If at any time when
a prospectus relating to the Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172 of the 1933
Act Regulations (“Rule 172”), would be) required by the 1933 Act to be delivered in connection
with sales of the Securities, any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is
necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters or for the Company, to (i) amend the
Registration Statement in order that the Registration Statement will not include an untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading, (ii) amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package
or the Prospectus in order that the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may
be, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
in order to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at
the time it is delivered to a purchaser or (iii) amend the Registration Statement or amend or
supplement the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, in order to
comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations, the Company will
promptly (A) give the Representatives notice of such event, (B) furnish the Representatives with
copies of any such documents prior to such proposed filing or use, as the case may be, (C) prepare
any amendment or supplement as may be necessary to correct such statement or omission or to
make the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus comply with
such requirements and, a reasonable amount of time prior to any proposed filing or use, furnish
the Representatives with copies of any such amendment or supplement and (D) file with the
Commission any such amendment or supplement; provided that the Company shall not file or use
any such amendment or supplement to which the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters
shall reasonably object. The Company will furnish to the Underwriters such number of copies of
such amendment or supplement as the Underwriters may reasonably request. The Company has
given the Representatives notice of any filings made pursuant to the 1934 Act or 1934 Act
Regulations within 48 hours prior to the Applicable Time; the Company will give the
Representatives notice of its intention to make any such filing from the Applicable Time to the
Closing Time and will furnish the Representatives with copies of any such documents a reasonable
amount of time prior to such proposed filing, as the case may be, and will not file or use any such
document to which the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object.
(c) Delivery of Registration Statements. The Company has furnished or will deliver to
the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the
Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (including exhibits filed
therewith) and signed copies of all consents and certificates of experts, and will also deliver to the
Representatives, without charge, a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally
filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) for each of the Underwriters. The copies of
the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be
identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to
XXXXX, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
(d) Delivery of Prospectuses. The Company has delivered to each Underwriter,
without charge, as many copies of each preliminary prospectus as such Underwriter reasonably
requested, and the Company hereby consents to the use of such copies for purposes permitted by
the 1933 Act. The Company will furnish to each Underwriter, without charge, during the period
when a prospectus relating to the Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172,
would be) required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, such number of copies of the Prospectus
(as amended or supplemented) as such Underwriter may reasonably request. The Prospectus and
any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the
electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to XXXXX, except
to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
(e) Blue Sky Qualifications. The Company will use its best efforts, in cooperation with
the Underwriters, to qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the applicable securities laws
of such states and other jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Representatives may designate
and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required to complete the distribution of the
Securities; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file any general consent
to service of process or to qualify as a foreign real estate investment trust or as a dealer in securities
in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing
business in any jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.
(f) Rule 158. The Company will timely file such reports pursuant to the 1934 Act as
are necessary in order to make generally available to its securityholders as soon as practicable an
earnings statement for the purposes of, and to provide to the Underwriters the benefits
contemplated by, the last paragraph of Section 11(a) of the 1933 Act.
(g) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the net proceeds received by it from the
sale of the Securities in the manner specified in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus under “Use of Proceeds.”
(h) Listing. The Company will use its best efforts to effect and maintain the listing of
the Securities on the New York Stock Exchange.
(i) Restriction on Sale of Securities. During a period of 45 days from the date of the
Prospectus, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, (i)
directly or indirectly, offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase,
purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase or otherwise
transfer or dispose of any Common Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for Common Shares or file any registration statement under the 1933 Act with
respect to any of the foregoing (except for a registration statement on Form S-8 relating to the
Company’s equity incentive plan) or (ii) enter into any swap or any other agreement or any
transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of
ownership of the Common Shares, whether any such swap or transaction described in clause (i) or
(ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Shares or such other securities, in cash or
otherwise. The foregoing sentence shall not apply to (A) the Securities to be sold hereunder, (B)
any Common Shares issued by the Company upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the
conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof and referred to in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (C) any Common Shares issued or
options to purchase Common Shares or other types of equity awards granted pursuant to existing
employee benefit plans of the Company referred to in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (D) any Common Shares issued pursuant to any non-
employee director stock plan or dividend reinvestment and share purchase plan for which a
registration statement has been filed with the Commission prior to the date hereof, (E) any OP
Units or other securities convertible into Common Shares issued by the Company or the Operating
Partnership in connection with an acquisition by the Company or any of the Company’s
subsidiaries or affiliates of interests in assets or real property, or (F) any Common Shares issued
in connection with the redemption or conversion of OP Units outstanding as of the date of this
Agreement.
(j) Reporting Requirements. The Company, during the period when a Prospectus
relating to the Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172, would be) required to
be delivered under the 1933 Act, will file all documents required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to the 1934 Act within the time periods required by the 1934 Act and 1934 Act
Regulations. Additionally, the Company shall report the use of proceeds from the issuance of the
Securities as may be required under Rule 463 under the 1933 Act.
(k) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company agrees that, unless it obtains the
prior written consent of the Representatives, it will not make any offer relating to the Securities
that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free
writing prospectus,” or a portion thereof, required to be filed by the Company with the Commission
or retained by the Company under Rule 433; provided that the Representatives will be deemed to
have consented to the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses listed on Schedule B-2 hereto and any
“road show that is a written communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i) that has been
reviewed by the Representatives. The Company represents that it has treated or agrees that it will
treat each such free writing prospectus consented to, or deemed consented to, by the
Representatives as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and that it has
complied and will comply with the applicable requirements of Rule 433 with respect thereto,
including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and record keeping. If at
any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event
or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would
conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus
or the Prospectus or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or
would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light
of the circumstances existing at that subsequent time, not misleading, the Company will promptly
notify the Representatives and will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.
(l) [Reserved]
(m) Absence of Manipulation. Except as contemplated herein or in the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, each of the Company and the Operating Partnership will
not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might
reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
securities of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.
(n) Qualification and Taxation as a REIT. The Company will use its reasonable best
efforts to meet the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code for its
taxable year ending December 31, 2016, and the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to
continue to qualify for taxation as a REIT under the Code and will not take any action to revoke
or otherwise terminate the Company’s REIT election, unless the Company’s board of trustees
determines in good faith that it is no longer in the best interests of the Company to be so qualified.
(o) Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx. The Company will comply in all material respects with all
applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act that are in effect.
(p) Notification of Material Events. The Company, during the period when the
Prospectus is (or but for the exemption in Rule 172 would be) required to be delivered under the
1933 Act or the 1934 Act, shall notify the Representatives of the occurrence of any material events
respecting its (including those of the Operating Partnership) activities, affairs or condition,
financial or otherwise, if, but only if, as a result of any such event it is necessary, in the opinion of
counsel, to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the Prospectus not misleading in
the light of the circumstances existing at the time it is (or but for the exemption in Rule 172 would
be) delivered to a purchaser, and the Company will forthwith supply such information as shall be
necessary in the opinion of counsel to the Company and the Underwriters for the Company to
prepare any necessary amendment or supplement to the Prospectus so that, as so amended or
supplemented, the Prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances existing at the time it is (or but for the exemption in Rule 172 would be) delivered
to a purchaser, not misleading.
SECTION 4. Payment of Expenses.
(a) Expenses. The Company will pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including (i) the preparation, printing and
filing of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits) as originally filed
and each amendment thereto, (ii) the preparation, printing and delivery to the Underwriters of
copies of each preliminary prospectus, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and
any amendments or supplements thereto and any costs associated with electronic delivery of any
of the foregoing by the Underwriters to investors, (iii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of
the certificates for the Securities to the Underwriters, including any stock or other transfer taxes
and any stamp or other duties payable upon the sale, issuance or delivery of the Securities to the
Underwriters, (iv) the fees and disbursements of the Company’s counsel, accountants and other
advisors, the qualification of the Securities under securities laws in accordance with the provisions
of Section 3(e) hereof, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel
for the Underwriters in connection therewith and in connection with the preparation of the Blue
Sky Survey and any supplement thereto, (vi) the fees and expenses of any transfer agent or registrar
for the Securities, (vii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations
on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the Securities, including
without limitation, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, fees
and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations, travel
and lodging expenses of the representatives and officers of the Company and any such consultants,
and one half of the cost of aircraft and other transportation chartered in connection with the road
show, (viii) the filing fees incident to, and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the
Underwriters in connection with, the review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Securities,
and not to exceed $15,000 (ix) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the
Securities on the New York Stock Exchange and (x) the costs and expenses (including, without
limitation, any damages or other amounts payable in connection with legal or contractual liability)
associated with the reforming of any contracts for sale of the Securities made by the Underwriters
caused by a breach of the representation contained in the third sentence of Section 1(a)(ii). Except
as provided in this Section 4, Section 6 and Section 7, the Underwriters shall pay their own
expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their counsel.
(b) Termination of Agreement. If this Agreement is terminated by the Representatives
in accordance with the provisions of Section 5, Section 9(a)(i) or (iii) or Section 10 hereof, the
Company shall reimburse the Underwriters (or, in the case of a termination in accordance with
Section 10, solely the non-defaulting Underwriters) for all of their accountable out-of-pocket
expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters
incurred by them in connection with the offering of the Securities.
SECTION 5. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the
several Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties
of the Company and the Operating Partnership contained herein on the date hereof and at the
Closing Time or in certificates of any officer of the Company delivered pursuant to the provisions
hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Operating Partnership of their respective
covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the following further conditions:
(a) Effectiveness of Registration Statement. The Registration Statement has become
effective and, at the Closing Time, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the 1933 Act, no order
preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued
and no proceedings for any of those purposes have been instituted or are pending or, to the
Company’s knowledge, contemplated; and the Company has complied with each request (if any)
from the Commission for additional information.
(b) Opinion of Counsel for the Company and the Operating Partnership. At the
Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion, dated the Closing
Time, of Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company and the Operating Partnership, in
form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with signed or
reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters.
(c) Opinion of Tax Counsel for Company and the Operating Partnership. At the
Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion, dated as of the
Closing Time, of Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx LLP, tax counsel for the Company and the Operating
Partnership, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with
signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters.
(d) Opinion of Maryland Counsel for Company. At the Closing Time, the
Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion, dated as of the Closing Time, of
Xxxxxxx LLP, Maryland counsel for the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel
for the Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other
Underwriters.
(e) Opinion of Counsel for Underwriters. At the Closing Time, the Representatives
shall have received the favorable opinion, dated the Closing Time, of Xxxxx Day, counsel for the
Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other
Underwriters with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may reasonably request.
(f) Officers’ Certificate. At the Closing Time, there shall not have been, since the date
hereof or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, any Material Adverse Effect, and the
Representatives shall have received a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer or the President of
the Company and of the chief financial officer or equivalent officer of the Company, dated the
Closing Time, to the effect that (i) there has been no such Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the
representations and warranties of the Company and the Operating Partnership in this Agreement
are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of the
Closing Time, (iii) each of the Company and the Operating Partnership has complied with all
agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the
Closing Time, and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement
under the 1933 Act has been issued, no order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary
prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for any of those purposes have
been instituted or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated.
(g) Financial Officer’s Certificate. On the date hereof and at the Closing Time, the
Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate, dated the date hereof and the
date of the Closing Time, respectively, of an officer of the Company, with respect to certain
financial data contained in or incorporated by reference in each of the General Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(h) Accountant’s Comfort Letter. At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the
Representatives shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter, dated such date, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, together with signed or reproduced copies of
such letter for each of the other Underwriters containing statements and information of the type
ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial
statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(i) Bring-down Comfort Letter. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have
received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter, dated as of the Closing Time, to the effect that they
reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (h) of this Section,
except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three business days prior to
the Closing Time.
(j) Approval of Listing. At the Closing Time, the Securities shall have been approved
for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance.
(k) No Objection. FINRA has confirmed that it has not raised any objection with
respect to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements relating to
the offering of the Securities.
(l) Lock-up Agreements. At the date of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have
received a lock-up agreement in a form satisfactory to the Representatives signed by the persons
listed on Schedule C hereto (by power of attorney or otherwise).
(m) Conditions to Purchase of Option Securities. In the event that the Underwriters
exercise their option provided in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any portion of the Option
Securities, the representations and warranties of the Company and the Operating Partnership
contained herein and the statements in any certificates furnished by the Company hereunder shall
be true and correct as of each Date of Delivery and, at the relevant Date of Delivery, the
Representatives shall have received:
(i) Officers’ Certificate. A certificate, dated such Date of Delivery, of the
President or a Vice President of the Company and of the chief financial officer or
equivalent of the Company confirming that the certificate delivered at the Closing Time
pursuant to Section 5(d) hereof remains true and correct as of such Date of Delivery.
(ii) Financial Officer’s Certificate. A certificate, dated such Date of
Delivery, of an officer of the Company, with respect to certain financial data contained in
or incorporated by reference in each of the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus,
in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(iii) Opinion of Counsel for Company and the Operating Partnership. The
favorable opinion of Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company and the Operating
Partnership, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option Securities to be purchased
on such Date of Delivery and otherwise to the same effect as the opinion required by
Section 5(b) hereof.
(iv) Opinion of Tax Counsel for the Company and the Operating Partnership.
The favorable opinion of Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx LLP, tax counsel for the Company and the
Operating Partnership, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option Securities to be
purchased on such Date of Delivery and otherwise to the same effect as the opinion
required by Section 5(c) hereof.
(v) Opinion of Maryland Counsel for the Company. The favorable opinion
of Xxxxxxx LLP, Maryland counsel for the Company, dated such Date of Delivery, relating
to the Option Securities to be purchased on such Date of Delivery and otherwise to the
same effect as the opinion required by Section 5(d) hereof.
(vi) Opinion of Counsel for Underwriters. The favorable opinion of Xxxxx
Day, counsel for the Underwriters, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option
Securities to be purchased on such Date of Delivery and otherwise to the same effect as the
opinion required by Section 5(e) hereof.
(vii) Bring-down Comfort Letter. Letter from Ernst & Young LLP, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Representatives and dated such Date of Delivery,
substantially in the same form and substance as the letters furnished to the Representatives
pursuant to Section 5(h) hereof, except that the “specified date” in the letters furnished
pursuant to this paragraph shall be a date not more than three business days prior to such
Date of Delivery.
(n) Additional Documents. At the Closing Time and at each Date of Delivery (if any)
counsel for the Underwriters shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they
may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the
Securities as herein contemplated, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations
or warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings
taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein
contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and
counsel for the Underwriters.
(o) Termination of Agreement. If any condition specified in this Section shall not have
been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, this Agreement, or, in the case of any condition
to the purchase of Option Securities on a Date of Delivery which is after the Closing Time, the
obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase the relevant Option Securities, may be
terminated by the Representatives by notice to the Company at any time at or prior to Closing
Time or such Date of Delivery, as the case may be, and such termination shall be without liability
of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 and except that Sections 1, 6, 7, 8,
14 and 15 shall survive any such termination and remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 6. Indemnification.
(a) Indemnification of Underwriters. The Company and the Operating Partnership
agree, jointly and severally, to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates (as
such term is defined in Rule 501(b) under the 1933 Act (each, an “Affiliate”)), its selling agents
and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the
1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act as follows:
(i) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense
whatsoever, as incurred, arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of
a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto),
including any information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B, or the
omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or arising out of any untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact included (A) in any preliminary
prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), or (B) in any materials or
information provided to investors by, or with the approval of, the Company in connection
with the marketing of the offering of the Securities (“Marketing Materials”), including any
roadshow or investor presentations made to investors by the Company (whether in person
or electronically), or the omission or alleged omission in any preliminary prospectus, Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus or in any Marketing Materials of a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading;
(ii) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense
whatsoever, as incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any
litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body,
commenced or threatened, or of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue
statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission; provided that
(subject to Section 6(d) below) any such settlement is effected with the written consent of
the Company;
(iii) against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred (including the fees
and disbursements of counsel chosen by the Representatives), reasonably incurred in
investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or
proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim
whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue
statement or omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under (i) or (ii) above;
provided, however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability, claim,
damage or expense to the extent arising out of any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue
statement or omission made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including
any information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B, the General Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in
conformity with the Underwriter Information.
Insofar as this indemnity agreement may permit indemnification for liabilities under the
1933 Act of any person who is a partner of an Underwriter or who controls an underwriter within
the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act and who, at the date of
this Agreement, is a trustee or officer of the Company or controls the Company within the meaning
of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, such indemnity agreement is subject
to the undertaking of the Company in the Registration Statement under Item 17.
(b) Indemnification of Company, Trustees and Officers. Each Underwriter severally
agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its trustees, each of its officers who signed
the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning
of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, against any and all loss, liability,
claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of this Section,
as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements
or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including any
information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B, or any preliminary prospectus, any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any
amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter
Information.
(c) Actions against Parties; Notification. Each indemnified party shall give notice as
promptly as reasonably practicable to each indemnifying party of any action commenced against
it in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying
party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability hereunder to the extent it is not
materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights and defenses) as a result thereof
and in any event shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account
of this indemnity agreement. In the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 6(a) above,
counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by the Representatives, and, in the case of
parties indemnified pursuant to Section 6(b) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be
selected by the Company. If it so elects within a reasonable time after receipt of such notice, an
indemnifying party, jointly with any other indemnifying parties receiving such notice, may assume
the defense of such action with counsel chosen by it and approved by the indemnified parties
defendant in such action (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), unless such
indemnified parties reasonably object to such assumption on the ground that there may be legal
defenses available to them which are different from or in addition to those available to such
indemnifying party and delivers prior written notice thereof to the indemnifying parties. If an
indemnifying party assumes the defense of such action, the indemnifying party shall not be liable
for any fees and expenses of counsel for the indemnified parties incurred thereafter in connection
with such action other than the reasonable costs of investigation unless (i) the indemnifying party
and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the indemnifying party
has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified
party; (iii) the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses
available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying party; or
(iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the
indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same
counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. In no
event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in
addition to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel for all indemnified parties in
connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction
arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances. No indemnifying party shall, without
the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry
of any judgment with respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any
governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever in respect of
which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 6 or Section 7 hereof
(whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such
settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party
from all liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim and (ii) does not
include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of
any indemnified party.
(d) Settlement without Consent if Failure to Reimburse. If at any time an indemnified
party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and
expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the
nature contemplated by Section 6(a)(ii) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement
is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request,
(ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30
days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have
reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such
settlement.
SECTION 7. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 6
hereof is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in
respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each
indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims,
damages and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, (i) in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Operating Partnership,
on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Securities
pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by
applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred
to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Operating Partnership, on
the one hand, and of the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or
omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any
other relevant equitable considerations.
The relative benefits received by the Company and the Operating Partnership, on the one
hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Securities
pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total
net proceeds from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting
expenses) received by the Company and the Operating Partnership, on the one hand, and the total
underwriting discount received by the Underwriters, on the other hand, in each case as set forth on
the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate public offering price of the Securities as set forth
on the cover of the Prospectus.
The relative fault of the Company and the Operating Partnership, on the one hand, and the
Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether
any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to
state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company and the Operating Partnership
or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and
opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
The Company, the Operating Partnership and the Underwriters agree that it would not be
just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation
(even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of
allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this
Section 7. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by
an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 7 shall be deemed to include any legal
or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or
defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency
or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged
untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, no Underwriter shall be required to
contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities
underwritten by it and distributed to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such
Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any such untrue or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission.
No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of
the 0000 Xxx) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation.
For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if any, who controls an Underwriter within the
meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act and each Underwriter’s
Affiliates and selling agents shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and
each trustee of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement,
and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Operating Partnership within the
meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to
contribution as the Company or the Operating Partnership. The Underwriters’ respective
obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to the number of Initial
Securities set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule A hereto and not joint.
SECTION 8. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive. All
representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or in certificates of
officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and
effect regardless of (i) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or its Affiliates
or selling agents, any person controlling any Underwriter, its officers or directors or any person
controlling the Company or the Operating Partnership and (ii) delivery of and payment for the
Securities.
SECTION 9. Termination of Agreement.
(a) Termination. The Representatives may terminate this Agreement, by notice to the
Company, at any time at or prior to the Closing Time (i) if there has been, in the judgment of the
Representatives, since the time of execution of this Agreement or since the respective dates as of
which information is given in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus, any Material Adverse Effect or (ii) if there has occurred any material adverse change
in the financial markets in the United States or the international financial markets, any outbreak of
hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any change or development involving
a prospective change in national or international political, financial or economic conditions, in
each case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives,
impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the completion of the offering or to enforce contracts
for the sale of the Securities, or (iii) if trading in any securities of the Company has been suspended
or materially limited by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange, or (iv) if trading
generally on the NYSE MKT LLC or the New York Stock Exchange or in the Nasdaq Global
Market has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have
been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by any of said exchanges or by
order of the Commission, FINRA or any other governmental authority, or (v) a material disruption
has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United
States or with respect to Clearstream or Euroclear systems in Europe, or (vi) if a banking
moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities.
(b) Liabilities. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section, such
termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section
4 hereof, and provided further that Sections 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 14 and 15 shall survive such termination
and remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 10. Default by One or More of the Underwriters. If one or more of the
Underwriters shall fail at the Closing Time or a Date of Delivery to purchase the Securities which
it or they are obligated to purchase under this Agreement (the “Defaulted Securities”), the
Representatives shall have the right, within 24 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one or
more of the non-defaulting Underwriters, or any other underwriters, to purchase all, but not less
than all, of the Defaulted Securities in such amounts as may be agreed upon and upon the terms
herein set forth; if, however, the Representatives shall not have completed such arrangements
within such 24-hour period, then:
(i) if the number of Defaulted Securities does not exceed 10% of the number
of Securities to be purchased on such date, each of the non-defaulting Underwriters shall
be obligated, severally and not jointly, to purchase the full amount thereof in the
proportions that their respective underwriting obligations hereunder bear to the
underwriting obligations of all non-defaulting Underwriters, or
(ii) if the number of Defaulted Securities exceeds 10% of the number of
Securities to be purchased on such date, this Agreement or, with respect to any Date of
Delivery which occurs after the Closing Time, the obligation of the Underwriters to
purchase, and the Company to sell, the Option Securities to be purchased and sold on such
Date of Delivery shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting
Underwriter.
No action taken pursuant to this Section shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from
liability in respect of its default.
In the event of any such default which does not result in a termination of this Agreement
or, in the case of a Date of Delivery which is after the Closing Time, which does not result in a
termination of the obligation of the Underwriters to purchase and the Company to sell the relevant
Option Securities, as the case may be, either (i) the Representatives or (ii) the Company shall have
the right to postpone Closing Time or the relevant Date of Delivery, as the case may be, for a
period not exceeding seven days in order to effect any required changes in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or in any other documents or
arrangements. As used herein, the term “Underwriter” includes any person substituted for an
Underwriter under this Section 10.
SECTION 11. Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be
in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted by any standard
form of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters shall be directed to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx at
0000 Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk, with a copy to
the Legal Department, KeyBanc at 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx (facsimile: (000) 000-0000) and to Xxxxxxx Xxxxx at Xxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, attention of Syndicate Department (facsimile: (000) 000-0000,
with a copy to ECM Legal (facsimile: (000) 000-0000), in each case with a copy to (which shall
not constitute notice) Xxxxx Day, North Point, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx (facsimile: (000) 000-0000); notices to the Company shall be
directed to it at Physicians Realty Trust, 000 X. Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx
00000, attention of Xxxx Xxxxxx (facsimile (000) 000-0000) with a copy (which shall not
constitute notice) to Xxxxx & XxXxxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx, 00000, attention of Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx (facsimile (000) 000-0000).
SECTION 12. No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this
Agreement, including the determination of the public offering price of the Securities and any
related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the
Company, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other hand, (b) in connection with
the offering of the Securities and the process leading thereto, each Underwriter is and has been
acting solely as a principal and is not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, any of its subsidiaries
or their respective stockholders, creditors, employees or any other party, (c) no Underwriter has
assumed or will assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with
respect to the offering of the Securities or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such
Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company or any of its subsidiaries on other
matters) and no Underwriter has any obligation to the Company with respect to the offering of the
Securities except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement, (d) the Underwriters and
their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests
that differ from those of the Company and (e) the Underwriters have not provided any legal,
accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering of the Securities and the Company
has consulted its own respective legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it
deemed appropriate.
SECTION 13. Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding
upon the Underwriters, the Company and the Operating Partnership and their respective
successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed
to give any person, firm or corporation, other than the Underwriters, the Company and the
Operating Partnership and their respective successors and the controlling persons and officers and
trustees referred to in Sections 6 and 7 and their heirs and legal representatives, any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein
contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole
and exclusive benefit of the Underwriters, the Company and the Operating Partnership and their
respective successors, and said controlling persons and officers and trustees and their heirs and
legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of
Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such
purchase.
SECTION 14. Trial by Jury. The Company (on its behalf and, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, on behalf of its shareholders and affiliates), the Operating Partnership
and each of the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating
to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
SECTION 15. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM,
CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT
SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF,
THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS CHOICE OF LAW PROVISIONS.
SECTION 16. TIME. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE OF THIS
AGREEMENT. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SET FORTH HEREIN, SPECIFIED TIMES OF
DAY REFER TO NEW YORK CITY TIME.
SECTION 17. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute one and the same Agreement.
SECTION 18. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign
and return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all
counterparts, will become a binding agreement among the Underwriters, the Company and the
Operating Partnership in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours,
PHYSICIANS REALTY TRUST
By /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx ____________________
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
PHYSICIANS REALTY L.P.
By: Physicians Realty Trust, its general partner
By /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx ____________________
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED,
as of the date first above written:
XXXXXX XXXXXXX & CO. LLC
By /s/ Xxx Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Executive Director
KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS INC.
By /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Sr. Managing Director
XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX
INCORPORATED
By /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
For themselves and as Representatives of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto.