Void after 5:00 p.m. New York Time, on _________, 2008.
BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST
OPTION AGREEMENT
OPTION AGREEMENT, dated as of __________, 1998, between
Brandywine Realty Trust (the "Company") and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx (the "Optionee").
1. Grant of Option. The Company hereby grants to the
Optionee an option (the "Option") to purchase a total of 100,000 common shares
of beneficial interest, par value $.01 per share (the "Shares"), of the
Company ("Common Shares"), subject to adjustment as and to the extent provided
herein.
2. Date of Grant; Term of Option. This Option is granted
this __ day of __________, 1998, and it may not be exercised later than 5:00
p.m. on _______, 2008 (the "Expiration Time"). All rights evidenced hereby shall
terminate, and this Option shall be void, immediately following the Expiration
Time.
3. Option Exercise Price. The Option exercise price
("Exercise Price") is twenty-four dollars ($24.00) per Share as to 50,000
Shares and twenty-six dollars and forty cents ($26.40) per Share as to 50,000
Shares, subject to adjustment as and to the extent provided herein.
4. Exercise of Option. This Option shall be exercisable
during its term only in accordance with the following:
(a) Right to Exercise. This Option is fully vested and
exercisable as of the date hereof.
(b) Method of Exercise. This Option shall be exercisable,
in whole or in part (but not for fractional shares), during its term by written
notice delivered to the Company at the address specified in Section 11 hereof,
which notice shall state the Optionee's election to exercise this Option and
the number of full Shares in respect to which this Option is being exercised.
The written exercise notice shall be accompanied by payment of the Exercise
Price multiplied by the number of Shares for which this Option is being
exercised. Payment of the Exercise Price shall be in lawful money of the
United States of America, in the form of a check, subject to collection, or
such consideration and method of payment as may be authorized by the Board of
Trustees of the Company. If this Option should be exercised in part only, the
lower priced Shares shall be deemed to have been purchased first and the
Company shall, upon surrender of this Option, execute and deliver a new Option
evidencing the rights of the Optionee thereof to purchase the balance of the
Shares purchasable hereunder. Upon receipt by the Company of this Option,
together with proper payment of the purchase price, the Optionee shall be
deemed to be the holder of record of the Shares, notwithstanding that the
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share transfer books of the Company shall then be closed or that certificates
representing such Shares shall not then be actually delivered to the Optionee.
The Company shall pay any and all documentary stamp or similar issue or
transfer taxes payable in respect of the issue or delivery of the Shares. The
certificate or certificates for the Shares as to which this Option shall be
exercised shall be registered in the name of the Optionee and shall be
legended as the Company may reasonably require to comply with applicable
federal and state securities laws.
(c) Restrictions on Exercise. This Option may not be
exercised if the issuance of the Shares upon such exercise would constitute a
violation of any applicable federal or state securities laws or other laws or
regulations. As a condition to the exercise of this Option, the Company may
require the Optionee to make such representations and warranties to the
Company as may be required to determine whether such exercise would constitute
a violation of any applicable law or regulation. If it is determined pursuant
to this Section 4(c) that an Option may not be exercised, then the Company
must return to the Optionee, within one business day, any payment made by the
Optionee to the Company with respect to such Option. The Company represents
and warrants that as of the date of this Option, the Company has registered on
a Form S-8 filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 the Common Shares
issuable upon exercise of this Option.
5. Reservation of Shares. The Company shall reserve at all
times for issuance and delivery upon exercise of this Option the number of
Common Shares from time to time issuable upon exercise of this Option. All
such Shares shall be duly authorized and, when issued upon the exercise of
this Option in accordance with the terms hereof, shall be validly issued,
fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all taxes, liens, security
interests, charges and other encumbrances or restrictions (other than
restrictions pursuant to applicable federal and state securities laws) and
free and clear of all preemptive rights.
6. Investment Representations. The Optionee represents and
warrants as follows:
(a) The Optionee is acquiring this Option, and upon
exercise of this Option, he will be acquiring the Shares for investment for
his own account, not as a nominee or agent, and not with a view to, or for
resale in connection with, any distribution thereof.
(b) The Optionee has a preexisting business relationship
with the Company and, by reason of his business and financial experience, has
the capacity to protect his interests in connection with the acquisition of
this Option and the Shares.
7. Non-transferability of Option. This Option may not be
sold, pledged, assigned, hypothecated, gifted, transferred or disposed of in
any manner either voluntarily or involuntarily by operation of law, other than
by will or by the laws of descent or distribution, and may be exercised during
the lifetime of the Optionee only by such Optionee. Subject to the
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foregoing, the terms of this Option shall be binding upon the executors,
administrators, heirs, successors and assigns of the Optionee.
8. Rights of the Optionee. The Optionee shall not, by virtue
of his ownership of this Option alone, be entitled to any rights of a holder
of Common Shares of the Company, either at law or equity, and the rights of
the Optionee are limited to those expressly set forth in this Agreement.
9. Adjustment of Purchase Price and Number of Shares. The
number and kind of securities purchasable upon the exercise of this Option and
the Exercise Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time upon the
occurrence of certain events, as follows:
(a) Adjustment for Certain Changes. If at any time after
the date hereof, the Company:
(i) pays a dividend or makes a distribution on its
Common Shares in additional Common Shares;
(ii) subdivides its outstanding Common Shares into a
greater number of Common Shares;
(iii) combines its outstanding Common Shares into a
smaller number of Common Shares; or
(iv) makes a distribution on its Common Shares in
shares of beneficial interest of the Company other
than Common Shares;
then the Exercise Price in effect (and the number of Shares and other
securities, if any, issuable upon exercise of this Option) immediately prior
to such action shall be adjusted so that the Optionee may receive upon
exercise of the Option, and payment of the same aggregate consideration, the
number of shares of beneficial interest of the Company which the Optionee
would have owned immediately following such action if the Optionee had
exercised this Option immediately prior to such action.
The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the
record date in the case of a dividend or distribution, and immediately after
the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or
reclassification.
(b) Officers' Certificate. Whenever the Exercise Price
shall be adjusted as required by the provisions of this Section 9, the Company
shall forthwith file in the custody of its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
at its principal office an officers' certificate showing the adjusted Exercise
Price determined as herein provided, setting forth in reasonable detail the
facts requiring such adjustment and the manner of computing such adjustment.
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Each such officers' certificate shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board,
President and Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of the
Company and by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company. A copy
of each such officers' certificate shall be promptly mailed, by certified
mail, to the Optionee.
10. Reclassification, Reorganization, Consolidation or
Merger. In the event of any reclassification, capital reorganization or other
change of the outstanding Common Shares of the Company (other than a
subdivision or combination of the outstanding Common Shares and other than a
change in the par value of the Common Shares) or in the event of any
consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another person or entity
(other than a merger in which the Company is the continuing person or entity
and that does not result in any reclassification, capital reorganization or
other change of outstanding Common Shares) or in the event of any sale or
conveyance to another person or entity of the property and assets of the
Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety, the Company shall, as
a condition precedent to such transaction, cause effective provisions to be
made so that the Optionee shall have the right thereafter, by exercising this
Option, to purchase the kind and amount of shares of beneficial interest and
other securities and property (including cash) receivable upon such
reclassification, capital reorganization and other change, consolidation,
merger, sale or conveyance by a holder of the number of Common Shares that
might have been received if this Option had been exercised immediately prior
to such reclassification, capital reorganization, change, consolidation,
merger, sale or conveyance. Any such provision shall include provisions for
adjustments in respect of such shares of beneficial interest and other
securities and property that shall be as nearly equivalent as may be
practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Option. The foregoing
provisions of this Section 10 shall similarly apply to successive
reclassifications, capital reorganizations and changes of Common Shares and to
successive consolidations, mergers, sales or conveyances.
11. Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be
delivered hereunder to the Company or the Optionee shall be delivered or sent
by certified mail or by overnight courier. If the notice is to the Company, it
shall be sent to: 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000, xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxx. If the notice is sent to the Optionee, it shall be sent to: 000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000. Any party may change the address to
which notices are to be sent by delivery of written notice to the other party
in the manner specified in the preceding sentence.
12. Entire Agreement. This Option has been granted pursuant
to the Company's 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended (the "Plan"). This
Agreement, and the provisions of the Plan, represent the entire agreement
between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. Termination of
the Plan shall not impair the rights of the Optionee under this Option.
13. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland.
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14. Modification and Waiver. Neither this Agreement nor any
term hereof may be amended, waived, discharged or terminated other than by an
instrument in writing signed by the Company and the Optionee.
15. Non-Recourse. No recourse shall be had for any
obligation of the Company hereunder, or for any claim based thereon or
otherwise in respect thereof, against any past, present or future trustee,
shareholder, officer or employee of the Company, whether by virtue of any
statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or
otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the
Optionee.
16. Status of Option. The Option is intended to be a
non-qualified stock option. Accordingly, it is intended that the transfer of
property pursuant to the exercise of the Option shall be subject to federal
income tax in accordance with section 83 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(the "Code"). The Option is not intended to qualify as an incentive stock
option within the meaning of section 422 of the Code.
17. Withholding of Taxes. Whenever the Company proposes or
is required to deliver or transfer Common Shares in connection with the
exercise of the Option, the Company shall have the right to (a) require the
Optionee to remit to the Company an amount sufficient to satisfy any federal,
state and/or local withholding tax requirements prior to the delivery or
transfer of any certificate or certificates for such Common Shares or (b) take
whatever action it deems necessary to protect its interests with respect to
tax liabilities, and in connection with the foregoing, the Company agrees, to
the extent consistent with the Plan and applicable law, and upon request of
the Optionee, to withhold Common Shares otherwise issuable upon exercise of
the Option to satisfy such tax liabilities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused its duly
authorized officer to execute this instrument this _____ day of __________,
1998.
By: _______________________________
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: President and Chief
Executive Officer
Acknowledged and Agreed:
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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