AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AMONG GSHGIF LTP, LP,Merger Agreement • June 25th, 2018 • Education Realty Operating Partnership L P • Investors, nec • Maryland
This AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of June 25, 2018 (this “Agreement”), is by and among (i) GSHGIF LTP, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Parent”), (ii) Education Realty Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation that has elected to be treated as a real estate investment trust for U.S. federal income Tax purposes (“Company”), (iii) Education Realty Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Company OP”), (iv) Education Realty OP GP, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Company (the “OP GP”), (v) University Towers Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“DownREIT”), (vi) University Towers OP GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Company OP (“DownREIT GP”), (vii) GSHGIF REIT, a Maryland real estate investment trust and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“REIT Merger Sub”), (viii) GSHGIF Acquisition LP, a Delaware limited partnership, a direct subsidiary of REIT Merger Sub and an i
