UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 10-Q
FOR QUARTERLY AND TRANSITION REPORTS PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
(X) QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 1998
OR
( ) TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from ________ to _________
Commission file number 1-10524
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Virginia 54-0857512
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation of organization) Identification No.)
10 South Sixth Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219-3802
(Address of principal executive offices - zip code)
(804) 780-2691
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required
to be filed by Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
during the preceding 12 months, and (2) has been subject to filing requirements
for at least the past 90 days.
Yes X No
APPLICABLE ONLY TO CORPORATE USERS:
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer's classes of
common stock as of May 8, 1998:
Common Stock: 102,381,283
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UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except for share data)
(Unaudited)
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March 31, December 31,
1998 1997
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Assets
Real estate owned:
Real estate held for investment $ 2,641,958 $ 2,281,438
Less: accumulated depreciation 214,945 200,506
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2,427,013 2,080,932
Real estate under development 38,774 24,598
Real estate held for disposition 153,675 166,501
Cash and cash equivalents 5,961 473
Other assets 109,881 41,221
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Total assets $ 2,735,304 $ 2,313,725
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Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity
Notes payable-secured $ 610,034 $ 417,325
Notes payable-unsecured 790,083 738,901
Real estate taxes payable 18,334 21,744
Accrued interest payable 16,658 14,912
Security deposits and prepaid rent 15,487 12,105
Distributions payable to common and preferred shareholders 27,498 25,607
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities 14,376 10,081
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Total liabilities 1,492,470 1,240,675
Minority interest of unitholders in operating partnership 37,515 14,693
Shareholders' equity:
Preferred stock, no par value; $25 liquidation preference,
25,000,000 shares authorized;
4,200,000 shares 9.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable 105,000 105,000
6,000,000 shares 8.60% Series B Cumulative Redeemable 150,000 150,000
Common stock, $1 par value; 150,000,000 shares authorized
100,700,952 shares issued and outstanding (89,168,442 in 1997) 100,701 89,168
Additional paid-in capital 1,054,592 906,307
Notes receivable from officer-shareholders (8,776) (8,806)
Distributions in excess of net income (196,198) (183,312)
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Total shareholders' equity 1,205,319 1,058,357
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Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $ 2,735,304 $ 2,313,725
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See accompanying notes.
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UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
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Three Months Ended March 31, 1998 1997
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Revenues
Rental income $104,249 $ 89,984
Interest and other non-property income 1,012 251
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105,261 90,235
Expenses
Rental expenses:
Utilities 5,805 6,466
Repairs and maintenance 12,354 11,819
Real estate taxes 9,052 7,112
Property management 3,330 2,777
Other operating expenses 10,480 9,442
Real estate depreciation 20,928 16,162
Interest 22,825 19,150
General and administrative 2,163 1,833
Other depreciation and amortization 746 450
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87,683 75,211
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Income before gains (losses) on sales of investments and minority interest
of unitholders in operating partnership 17,578 15,024
Gains (losses) on sales of investments (260) 2,120
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Income before minority interest of unitholders in operating
partnership 17,318 17,144
Minority interest of unitholders in operating partnership (135) (31)
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Net income 17,183 17,113
Dividends to preferred shareholders (5,650) (2,428)
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Net income available to common shareholders $ 11,533 $ 14,685
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Earnings per common share:
Basic earnings per share $ 0.13 $ 0.17
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Diluted earnings per share $ 0.13 $ 0.17
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Distributions declared per common share $ 0.2625 $ 0.2525
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Weighted average number of common shares outstanding-basic 90,867 85,046
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding -diluted 92,115 85,273
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See accompanying notes.
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UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
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Three months ended March 31, 1998 1997
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Operating Activities
Net income $ 17,183 $ 17,113
Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash provided
by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization 21,674 16,612
Minority interest of unitholders in operating partnership 135 31
(Gains)/losses on sales of investments 260 (2,120)
Amortization of deferred financing costs 472 399
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Decrease in operating liabilities (8,150) (495)
Increase in operating assets (1,580) (4,526)
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Net cash provided by operating activities 29,994 27,014
Investing Activities
Acquisition of real estate, net of liabilities assumed (50,028) (90,312)
Capital expenditures (12,504) (22,075)
Development of real estate assets (12,607) (8,318)
Net proceeds from sales of investments 9,730 9,944
Proceeds from interest rate hedge transaction -- 1,539
Issuance of and payments on notes receivable (12,951)
Payments on notes receivable 2,142
Net cash acquired in acquisition of ASR Investments Corporation 330 --
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Net cash used in investing activities (78,030) (107,080)
Financing Activities
Net proceeds from the issuance of common stock 38,446 59,675
Net proceeds from the issuance of common stock through the
dividend reinvestment and stock purchase plan 12,936 6,851
Gross proceeds from the issuance of unsecured notes payable -- 125,000
Net borrowings of short-term bank debt 58,900 (18,250)
Distributions paid to preferred shareholders (5,653) (2,428)
Distributions paid to common shareholders (22,527) (19,663)
Distributions paid to minority interest unitholders (657) (33)
Scheduled principal payments on secured notes payable (1,707) (1,122)
Payments on unsecured notes payable (7,504) (63,414)
Non-scheduled payments on secured notes payable (18,165) --
Payment of financing costs (545) (1,385)
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Net cash provided by financing activities 53,524 85,231
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 5,488 5,165
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 473 13,452
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Cash and cash equivalents, end of period $ 5,961 $ 18,617
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Supplemental Information:
Interest paid during the period $ 22,389 $ 15,087
Non-cash transactions associated with the acquisition of properties:
Secured debt assumed through the acquisition of properties 43,022 22,063
Issuance of operating partnership units 1,924 --
Non-cash transactions associated with the acquisition of ASR Investment
Corporation:
Real estate assets acquired 313,700 --
Other operating assets acquired 8,848
Issuance of common stock 108,465 --
Issuance of operating partnership units 21,420 --
Secured debt assumed 179,440 --
Operating liabilities assumed 13,553 --
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See accompanying notes.
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United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders' Equity
Three Months Ended March 31, 1998
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
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Preferred Stock
Balance, December 31, 1997 $ 255,000
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Balance, March 31, 1998 $ 255,000
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Common Stock, $1 Par Value
Balance, December 31, 1997 $ 89,168
Issuance of common shares through Unit Investment Trust 2,804
Issuance of common shares in the acquisition of ASR Investment Corporation 7,743
Issuance of common shares through dividend reinvestment
and stock purchase plan 946
Issuance of common shares through exercise of stock options 40
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Balance, March 31, 1998 $ 100,701
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Additional Paid-in Capital
Balance, December 31, 1997 $ 906,307
Issuance of common shares through Unit Investment Trust 35,166
Issuance of common shares in the acquisition of ASR Investment Corporation 100,722
Issuance of common shares through dividend reinvestment
and stock purchase plan 11,990
Issuance of common shares through exercise of stock options 407
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Balance, March 31, 1998 $ 1,054,592
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Notes Receivable from Officer-Shareholders
Balance, December 31, 1997 $ (8,806)
Principal repayments 30
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Balance, March 31, 1998 $ (8,776)
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Distributions in Excess of Net Income
Balance, December 31, 1997 $ (183,312)
Net income 17,183
Common stock distributions declared ($0.2625 per share) (24,419)
Preferred stock distributions declared-Series A ($0.58 per share) (2,428)
Preferred stock distributions declared-Series B ($0.54 per share) (3,222)
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Balance, March 31, 1998 $ (196,198)
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Total Shareholders' Equity $ 1,205,319
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See accompanying notes.
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UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
1. Basis of presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of
United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc. and its subsidiaries, including United
Dominion Realty, L.P., its Operating Partnership, (collectively, the "Company").
As of March 31, 1998, United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc. and its wholly-owned
subsidiaries had a 89% interest in the Operating Partnership. The financial
statements of the Company include the minority interest of unitholders in the
operating partnership. All significant inter-company accounts and transactions
have been eliminated in consolidation. The consolidated financial statements
reflect all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a
fair presentation of financial position at March 31, 1998 and results of
operations for the interim periods ended March 31, 1998 and 1997. Such
adjustments are normal and recurring in nature. The interim results presented
are not necessarily indicative of results that can be expected for a full year.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction
with the audited financial statements and related notes appearing in the
Company's December 31, 1997 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Certain previously reported amounts have been reclassified to conform with the
current financial statement presentation.
2. Real estate held for investment
The following table summarizes real estate held for investment:
March 31, December 31,
Dollars in thousands 1998 1997
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Land and land improvements $ 443,612 $ 393,505
Buildings and improvements 2,083,467 1,783,565
Furniture, fixtures and equipment 110,616 100,380
Construction in progress 4,263 3,988
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Real estate held for investment $2,641,958 2,281,438
Accumulated depreciation (214,945) (200,506)
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Real estate held for investment, net $2,427,013 $ 2,080,932
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3. Notes payable - secured
Notes payable-secured, which encumber $1.1 billion or 39% of the Company's real
estate owned, at cost, ($1.8 billion or 61% of the Company's real estate owned,
at cost, is unencumbered) consist of the following at March 31, 1998:
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Principal Weighted Average Weighted Average No. Communities
Dollars in thousands Balance Interest Rate Years to Maturity Encumbered
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Fixed Rate Debt
Mortgage notes payable $ 316,384 8.30% 3.1 68
Tax-exempt secured notes payable 127,336 7.00% 18.5 18
REMIC financings 78,099 7.35% 2.5 23
Secured notes payable (a) 45,000 7.29% 1.2 6
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Total Fixed-Rate Notes 566,819 7.75% 6.4 115
Variable Rate Debt
Secured notes payable 41,015 6.63% 1.6 7
Tax-exempt secured notes payable 2,200 3.07% 4.4 1
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Total Variable-Rate Notes 43,215 6.45% 1.7 8
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Total Notes Payable - Secured $ 610,034 7.66% 6.0 123
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(a) Variable-rate secured notes payable which have been effectively swapped
to a fixed-rate at March 31, 1998 consist of a $39 million
variable-rate secured senior credit facility which encumbers six
apartment communities and a $6 million variable-rate construction note
payable. The Company has five interest rate swap agreements with
aggregate notional value of $45 million under which the Company pays a
fixed-rate of interest and receives a variable-rate on the notional
amounts. The interest rate swap agreements effectively change the
Company's interest rate exposure on $45 million from a variable-rate to
a weighted average fixed-rate of approximately 7.29%.
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4. Notes payable - unsecured
A summary of notes payable - unsecured is as follows:
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March 31, December 31,
Dollars in thousands 1998 1997
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Commercial Banks
Borrowings outstanding under
revolving credit facilities $ 194,500 $135,600
Insurance Companies--Senior Unsecured Notes
7.98% due March, 1999-2003 (a) 37,143 44,571
8.72% due November 1998 2,000 2,000
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39,143 46,571
Other (b) 6,440 6,730
Senior Unsecured Notes - Other
7.25% Notes due April 1999 75,000 75,000
8.50% Debentures due September 2024 (c) 150,000 150,000
7.95% Medium-Term Notes due July 2006 125,000 125,000
7.25% Notes due January 2007 125,000 125,000
7.07% Medium-Term Notes due November 2006 25,000 25,000
7.02% Medium-Term Notes due November 2005 50,000 50,000
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550,000 550,000
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Total Notes Payable - Unsecured $790,083 $738,901
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(a) Payable in five equal annual principal installments of $7.4 million.
(b) Includes $6.0 million and $6.2 million at March 31, 1998 and December
31, 1997, respectively, of deferred gains from the termination of
interest rate hedge transactions.
(c) Debentures include an investor put feature, which grants a one time
option to redeem debentures in September 2004.
5. Earnings Per Share
Basic earnings per common share is computed using net income available to common
shareholders and the weighted average shares outstanding. Diluted earnings per
common share is also computed using net income available to common shareholders,
however, the weighted average shares outstanding are adjusted for potentially
dilutive securities for the periods presented. The effect of the operating
partnership units was antidilutive for the three months ended March 31, 1997,
and is therefore not included in the following calculations. The following table
sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share:
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In thousands, except per share data March 31, 1998 March 31, 1997
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Numerator:
Numerator for basic earnings per share-net
income available to common shareholders $ 11,533 $ 14,685
Effect of minority interest 135 --
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Numerator for diluted earnings per share- net
income available to common shareholders $ 11,688 $ 14,685
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Denominator:
Denominator for basic earnings per share-
weighted average shares 90,867 85,046
Effect of dilutive securities:
Operating partnership units 1,131 --
Employee stock options 117 227
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Dilutive potential common shares
denominator for dilutive earnings per
share-adjusted weighted average shares
and assumed conversions 92,115 85,273
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Basic earnings per share $ 0.13 $ 0.17
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Diluted earnings per share $ 0.13 $ 0.17
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6. Pro Forma Financial Information
On March 27, 1998, the Company completed the acquisition of ASR Investments
Corporation (ASR) in a statutory merger. ASR was a publicly-traded multifamily
REIT that owned and operated 39 communities with 7,550 apartment homes located
in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and the state of Washington. Each share of ASR's
common stock was exchanged for 1.575 shares of the Company's common stock. The
acquisition was structured as a tax-free transaction and was treated as a
purchase for accounting purposes. In connection with the acquisition, the
Company acquired primarily real estate assets totaling $313.7 million.
Consideration given by the Company included 7,742,839 shares of the Company's
common stock valued at $14 per share for an aggregate equity value of $108.4
million plus the issuance of 1,529,990 Units in the ASR Operating Partnership
valued at $21.4 million. In addition, the Company assumed, at fair value,
mortgage debt totaling $179.4 million and other liabilities of $13.6 million.
Information concerning unaudited pro forma results of operations for the
quarters ended March 31, 1998 and 1997 are set forth below. For the quarter
ended March 31, 1998 such pro forma information assumes the acquisition of ASR
as if the transaction occurred on January 1, 1998. For the quarter ended March
31, 1997, such pro forma information assumes the following transactions occurred
on January 1, 1997: (i) the acquisition by the Company of 17 apartment
communities with 5,659 apartment homes at a total cost of $219 million and (ii)
the acquisition of ASR Investment Corporation of 22 apartment communities with
4,208 apartment homes at a total cost of $176 million.
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Pro Forma Pro Forma
Quarter Ended Quarter Ended
In thousands, except per share amounts March 31, 1998 March 31, 1997
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Rental income $115,979 $109,355
Net income available to common shareholders
before extraordinary item 12,241 16,148
Net income per common share before
extraordinary item-basic $ 0.12 $ 0.17
Net income per common share before
extraordinary item-diluted $ 0.12 $ 0.17
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The unaudited information is not necessarily indicative of what the Company's
consolidated results of operations would have been if the acquisitions had
occurred at the beginning of each period presented. Additionally, the pro forma
information does not purport to be indicative of the Company's results of
operations for future periods.
7. Accounting Pronouncements
As of January 1, 1998, the Company adopted SFAS No. 130 "Reporting Comprehensive
Income" (Statement 130). Statement 130 establishes new rules for the reporting
and display of comprehensive income and its components; however, the adoption of
Statement 130 had no impact on the Company's net income or stockholders' equity
for each of the periods presented.
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On March 19, 1998, the Emerging Issues Task Force of the Financial Accounting
Standards Board reached a consensus decision on Issues No. 97-11, "Accounting
for Internal Costs Relating to Real Estate Property Acquisitions" which provides
that internal costs of identifying and acquiring operating property should be
expensed as incurred. The Company has historically capitalized on a successful
efforts basis, the direct, internal costs of identifying and acquiring operating
property and, accordingly, will realize an increase in expense upon adoption of
this consensus, which is effective immediately. The Company does not expect the
impact on earnings to be material in 1998.
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PART I
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations
Overview
The Company considers portions of the information contained in Item 2. to
include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no
assurance that its expectations will be achieved.
The Company is engaged in the ownership, acquisition, development and operation
of apartment communities throughout the country. The Company's investment
strategy has focused on acquiring apartment communities in 24 targeted major
markets and geographically expanding into other markets in the Mid West and Far
West. Strategically, the Company intends to continue its expansion into other
areas of the United States and enter into several new markets in 1998 as
appropriate opportunities arise. The Company seeks to be a market leader by
operating a sufficiently sized portfolio of apartments within each market in
order to drive down operating costs through economies of scale and management
efficiencies. The Company believes this market diversification increases
investment opportunity and decreases the risk associated with cyclical local
real estate markets and economies. The following table summarizes the Company's
apartment market information by geographic region and market:
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Three Months Ended
As of March 31, 1998 March 31, 1998
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Average
Number of Number of % of Carrying Physical Monthly Average
Apartment Apartment Apartment Value Occupancy Rental Unit Size
Market Communities Homes Homes (in thousands) ** Rates* (Square Feet)
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Raleigh, NC 11 3,484 6% $ 151,813 92.5% $652 925
Richmond, VA 12 3,518 5% 121,395 92.1% 583 889
Greensboro, NC 10 2,638 4% 115,166 79.5% 578 863
Eastern NC 10 2,530 4% 101,455 88.3% 584 924
Baltimore, MD 8 1,746 3% 78,322 91.3% 670 864
Washington, DC 6 1,483 2% 66,272 90.4% 693 830
Hampton Roads, VA 8 1,830 3% 62,325 90.7% 551 874
Fayetteville, NC 3 884 1% 40,419 89.7% 564 899
Eastern Shore, MD 4 784 1% 33,772 97.4% 645 935
Other Virginia 6 1,156 2% 46,642 80.8% 601 870
Delaware 2 368 1% 17,433 93.2% 613 892
Other North Carolina 1 168 -- 7,401 94.3% 582 836
Charlotte, NC 13 3,009 4% 132,435 88.7% 635 970
Columbia, SC 12 3,534 5% 115,711 94.1% 509 859
Memphis, TN 7 2,427 4% 106,161 91.3% 525 302
Nashville, TN 8 2,116 3% 94,606 92.2% 598 952
Atlanta, GA 6 1,462 2% 64,386 90.8% 616 901
Greenville, SC 8 1,718 3% 60,661 87.5% 523 882
Other Georgia 2 468 -- 21,844 91.4% 643 1,140
Other South Carolina 2 408 -- 13,005 91.6% 421 908
Alabama 1 242 -- 10,990 92.5% 519 1,097
Orlando 12 3,584 5% 155,548 94.1% 617 784
Tampa 11 3,105 4% 111,964 95.8% 588 966
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale 4 960 1% 62,091 93.2% 806 1,092
Jacksonville 3 1,157 2% 55,053 91.4% 604 872
Other Florida 7 1,646 2% 68,710 95.6% 577 842
Dallas, TX *** 29 8,954 13% 371,073 93.2% 595 590
Houston, TX *** 23 5,783 8% 185,751 90.8% 544 379
Phoenix, AZ *** 7 1,980 3% 118,745 94.3% 650 328
San Antonio, TX 5 1,983 3% 88,198 91.2% 619 847
Washington State *** 3 812 1% 43,473 -- -- --
Tucson, AZ *** 8 1,112 2% 28,909 -- -- --
New Mexico *** 4 758 1% 28,251 90.5% 549 729
Austin, TX 2 542 1% 22,440 89.6% 592 713
Arkansas 2 512 1% 20,966 92.5% 576 821
Nevada 1 384 -- 20,308 84.3% 650 837
Other Texas 2 496 -- 15,851 89.2% 524 738
Oklahoma 1 316 -- 9,567 88.9% 459 756
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Total 264 70,057 100% $2,869,112 91.3% $594 742
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* Average monthly rental rates represent potential rent collections
(gross potential rents less market adjustments), which approximate net
effective rents. These figures exclude 1998 acquisitions.
** Physical occupancy is defined as rental income (potential rental
collections less vacancy loss, management units, units held out of
service and move-in concessions) divided by potential collections
(gross potential rent less management units, units held out of service
and move-in concessions) for the period, expressed as a percentage.
*** Physical Occupancy, Average Monthly Rental Rates and Average Unit Size
are not available for the communities included in these markets which
were acquired on March 27, 1998 in connection with the acquisition of
ASR Investment Corporation.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
As a qualified real estate investment trust ("REIT"), the Company distributes a
substantial portion of its cash flow to its shareholders in the form of
quarterly distributions. The Company believes that cash provided by operations
will be adequate to meet normal operating requirements and payment of
distributions by the Company in accordance with REIT requirements in both the
short and long term. For the three months ended March 31, 1998, the Company's
cash flow from operating activities exceeded cash distributions paid to
preferred and common shareholders and operating partnership unitholders by $1.2
million. The Company utilizes a variety of primarily external financing sources
to fund portfolio growth, major capital improvement programs and balloon debt
payments. The Company's bank lines of credit generally have been used to
temporarily finance these expenditures, and subsequently this short-term bank
debt has been replaced with longer term debt or equity. At March 31, 1998, the
Company had cash and cash equivalents of $6.0 million and amounts available
under its credit facilities aggregating $70.5 million. The following discussion
explains the changes in net cash provided by operating activities, net cash used
for investing activities and net cash provided by financing activities which are
presented in the Company's Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
Operating Activities
For the quarter ended March 31, 1998, the Company's cash flow from operating
activities increased $3.0 million over the same period last year. This increase
is primarily due to the increased operating income from the Company's acquired
apartment communities, as well as increases in property operating income within
the Company's mature apartment portfolio achieved through higher rental rates
and decreased property operating expenses as discussed below and under "Results
of Operations".
Investing Activities
During the three months ended March 31,1998, net cash used for investing
activities was $78.0 million compared to $107.1 million for the same period last
year. Changes in the level of investing activities from period to period
primarily reflect the changing levels of the Company's acquisition, capital
expenditure and development programs.
Acquisitions
The Company seeks to acquire apartment communities that can provide returns on
investment in excess of the Company's cost of capital. These acquisitions
typically are projected to provide first year weighted average returns on
average investment of approximately 9-9 1/2% with the prospect for future cash
flow growth and appreciation. The Company expects to purchase between 8,000 and
10,000 apartment homes in individual and portfolio transactions at an aggregate
cost ranging from $350 million and $450 million during 1998 (excluding ASR).
During the first three months of 1998, the Company acquired six apartment
communities with 2,076 apartment homes at a total cost (including closing costs)
of $95.9 million or $46,200 per home. The communities acquired by market were as
follows:
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Purchase
Purchase No. Apt. Year Price Cost
Location Date Name Homes Built (thousands) per Home
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Memphis, Tennessee 01/09/98 The Trails at Kirby Parkway (a) (b) 376 1987 $16,757 $44,566
01/09/98 Cinnamon Trails 208 1989 9,531 45,823
01/09/98 The Trails at Mount Moriah (a) (b) 630 1990/91 28,026 44,486
02/06/98 Dogwood Creek (b) (c) 278 1997 18,446 66,353
Phoenix, Arizona 01/09/98 The Village at North Park 320 1983 15,056 47,050
Dallas, Texas 01/30/98 Summit Ridge (b) 264 1983 8,034 30,430
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Total/Weighted Average 2,076 1989 $95,850 $46,171
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(a) These two properties are operating as one apartment community
named The Trails.
(b) The Company assumed four mortgage notes aggregating $43.0
million with a weighted average interest rate of 7.6% in
connection with the acquisition of these apartment
communities.
(c) The Company issued 130,416 Operating Partnership Units valued
at $1.9 million in connection with this community.
On April 17, 1998, the Company acquired a portfolio of eight apartment
communities with 1,970 apartment homes in a portfolio transaction valued at
approximately $71 million. Seven of the communities are located in San Antonio,
Texas and one is located just east of Dallas. In connection with the
transaction, the Company issued 481,251 shares of common stock and 1,023,725
operating partnership units valued at $14.75 each for an aggregate equity value
of $22 million and assumed eight mortgage loans totaling $44 million with a
weighted average interest rate of 8.4%. The acquisition of this portfolio
allowed the Company to nearly double its presence in San Antonio and achieve its
objective of gaining size in existing markets.
<PAGE>
Mergers
On March 27, 1998, the Company completed the acquisition of ASR Investments
Corporation in a statutory merger. ASR was a publicly-traded multifamily REIT
with apartment communities located in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and the state
of Washington. Each share of ASR's common stock was exchanged for 1.575 shares
of the Company's common stock. The acquisition was structured as a tax-free
transaction and was treated as a purchase for accounting purposes. In connection
with the acquisition, the Company acquired primarily real estate assets totaling
$313.7 million. Consideration given by the Company included 7,742,839 shares of
the Company's common stock valued at $14 per share for an aggregate equity value
of $108.4 million plus the issuance of 1,529,990 Units in the ASR Operating
Partnership valued at $21.4 million. In addition, the Company assumed, at fair
value, mortgage debt totaling $179.4 million and other liabilities of $13.6
million.
Combining ASR's 7,550 apartment homes and the Company's 62,507 apartment homes
created a portfolio of 70,057 homes located throughout 24 major markets. The
Merger both strengthened the Company's position in several long-term growth
markets in the Southwest and established an initial presence in the Northwest
where the Company plans to make additional acquisitions in the future. The 7,550
apartment homes had a weighted average year built of 1984 and are geographically
distributed as follows:
Number of Number of
City/State Apartment Communities Apartment Homes
- ------------------------ --------------------- ---------------
Houston, Texas 14 2,261
Dallas, Texas 8 1,889
Tucson, Arizona 8 1,112
Phoenix, Arizona 3 928
Albuquerque, New Mexico 3 548
Washington 3 812
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Total 39 7,550
=== =====
Real estate under development
Consistent with the Company's acquisition strategy, development activity is
focused primarily in its major markets. During the first three months of 1998,
the Company invested approximately $12.6 million in development projects on nine
apartment communities, including four new apartment communities, two additional
phases to existing apartment communities and three parcels of undeveloped land.
At March 31, 1998, the Company had 1,338 apartment homes under development as
outlined below (dollars in thousands, except cost per home):
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Development Estimated Estimated Expected
No. Apt. Completed Costs Development Cost Completion
Property Location Homes Apt. Homes to Date Cost Per Home Date
<S> <C>
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
New Apartment Communities
Dominion Franklin Nashville, TN 360 -- $ 10,542 $23,334 $ 64,800 1Q99
Ashlar I Fort Myers, FL 260 -- 2,915 18,566 71,400 1Q99
Sierra Foothills Phoenix, AZ 322 -- 1,610 21,062 65,400 1Q99
Ranchstone Houston, TX 216 -- 926 11,118 51,500 1Q99
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1,158 -- 15,993 74,080 64,000
Additional Phases
Mill Creek II Wilmington, NC 180 -- 5,329 12,081 67,100 3Q98
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Land Held for Development
Indian Creek Dallas, TX -- -- 2,980 -- -- --
Ashlar II Fort Myers, FL -- -- 1,127 -- -- --
Wimbledon II Dallas, TX -- -- 645 -- -- --
Other -- -- 925 -- -- --
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-- -- -- -- --
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1,338 -- $26,999 $ 86,161 $64,400
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</TABLE>
The Company completed the following development project during the first quarter
of 1998 (dollars in thousands, except cost per home):
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Development Estimated
No. Apt. Costs Development Cost Date of % Leased
Property Location Homes to Date Cost Per Home Completion at 3/31/98
<S> <C>
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Additional Phases
Oak Forest II* Dallas, TX 260 $11,775 $13,375 $51,400 1Q98 79%
============================================
* Oak Forest has been substantially completed, although some costs associated
with development were still outstanding as of March 31, 1998.
</TABLE>
During 1998, the Company expects to start another 1,700 apartment homes in five
different markets, investing approximately $100 million on the development of
new apartment communities and additional phases to existing communities which
are anticipated to provide stabilized returns on investment exceeding 10%.
Capital Expenditures
During the first quarter of 1998, the Company invested $12.5 million on capital
improvements to its apartment portfolio. During this period, capitalized
expenditures averaged $752 per home (on an annualized basis) for all apartment
homes acquired prior to 1996. Capital expenditures for the full year 1998 are
expected to be at or below 1997 levels.
Disposition of investments
In an effort to upgrade its apartment portfolio, the Company continually
undertakes portfolio review analyses with the objective of identifying
properties that no longer meet the Company's investment objectives due to size,
location, age, quality and/or performance. Since the Company began its
disposition program in the second half of 1997, approximately $200 million of
real estate owned has been sold. These sales will allow the Company to reduce
the age of its existing portfolio, which should result in lower operating
expense and capital expenditure growth associated with the older properties. The
Company intends to sell approximately $75 million of communities each quarter
until the end of the year, at which time it is believed the majority of the
disposition program will be complete. The sales are initially dilutive to
earnings as the initial returns on investment on higher quality apartments are
approximately 100 to 125 basis points lower than the return on investment on the
communities being sold. The net proceeds from these sales will be primarily used
to acquire apartment communities that will provide higher long term returns on
investment than the communities being sold.
On January 20, 1998, the Company sold a portfolio of five apartment communities
containing 2,406 apartment homes, which had a weighted average age of 21 years
for an aggregate sales price of $65.6 million. The transaction was structured to
qualify as a like-kind exchange under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code,
so the related capital gain will be deferred for federal income tax purposes.
These five communities, all located in Texas, were acquired on December 31, 1996
in connection with the South West Property Trust Inc. Merger ("South West
Merger"), and accordingly, no significant gain or loss was recorded for
financial reporting purposes.
<PAGE>
On April 24, 1998, the Company sold a portfolio of eleven Southeast apartment
communities located in the Southeast containing 2,303 homes, which had a
weighted average age of 24 years for an aggregate sales price of $69.4 million.
For income tax purposes, eight of the eleven communities sold were structured to
qualify as a tax deferred exchange so that the related capital gain will be
deferred. The Company will realize an approximate $20 million gain on the sale
for financial reporting purposes in the second quarter of 1998.
Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities during the three months ended March
31, 1998 was $53.5 million compared to $85.2 million for the same period last
year.
Cash provided by financing activities
During the first quarter of 1998, the Company entered into two separate
transactions to sell its common stock to Unit Investment Trust's ("UIT"). In
February 1998, the Company issued 1.7 million shares of its common stock at a
gross sales price of $14.31 per share to a UIT. In March 1998, the Company
issued 1.1 million shares of its common stock at a gross sales price of $14.19
to a second UIT. The net proceeds from the two UIT's aggregating $38.0 million
were primarily used to curtail bank debt.
The Company issued 945,921 shares of its common stock and received $12.9 million
under its Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan") during the
first quarter of 1998 which included $9.8 million in optional cash investments
and $3.1 million of reinvested dividends.
Depending upon the volume and timing of acquisition activity, the Company
anticipates raising additional debt and equity capital during the next twelve
months to finance capital requirements while striving to minimize the overall
cost of capital. However, acquisition activity is expected to be funded
primarily with the proceeds from the sales of apartment communities.
Funds from Operations
Funds from operations ("FFO") is defined as income before gains (losses) on
sales of investments, minority interest of unitholders in operating partnership
and extraordinary items (computed in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles) plus real estate depreciation, less preferred dividends
and after adjustment for significant non-recurring items, if any. The Company
computes FFO in accordance with the recommendations set forth by the National
Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("NAREIT"). The Company considers
FFO in evaluating property acquisitions and its operating performance, and
believes that FFO should be considered along with, but not as an alternative to,
net income and cash flows as a measure of the Company's operating performance
and liquidity. FFO does not represent cash generated from operating activities
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and is not
necessarily indicative of cash available to fund cash needs.
<PAGE>
For the three months ended March 31, 1998, FFO increased 14.3% to $32.9 million,
compared with $28.8 million for the same period last year. The increase in FFO
was principally due to the increased net rental income from the Company's
non-mature apartment homes acquired and developed subsequent to January 1, 1997.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Three Months Ended
March 31,
(in thousands)
----------------------------
1998 1997 % Change
----------------------------
<S> <C>
Calculation of funds from operations:
Income before gains on sales of investments and minority
interest of unitholders in operating partnership $ 17,578 $15,024 17.0%
Adjustments:
Real estate depreciation 20,928 16,162 29.5%
Dividends to preferred shareholders (5,650) (2,428) 132.7%
-----------------------------
Funds from operations $ 32,856 $28,758 14.3%
=============================
</TABLE>
Results of Operations
The Company's net income is primarily generated from the operations of its
apartment communities. For purposes of evaluating the Company's comparative
operating performance, the Company categorizes its apartment communities into
two categories, mature and non-mature. For the 1998 versus 1997 comparison,
these communities are as follows: (i) mature--those communities acquired,
developed and stabilized prior to January 1, 1997 and held throughout both the
first quarter of 1998 and 1997 and (ii) non-mature--those communities acquired,
developed or sold subsequent January 1, 1997.
The Company's apartment operations are divided into four geographic regions,
each of which constitutes a core operating unit. Based on the total number
apartment homes, the Northern Region constitutes 29.4% of the Company's
apartment portfolio and includes Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and northern North
Carolina. The Southern Region constitutes 22.0% of the Company's portfolio and
includes Charlotte, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and
Alabama. The Florida Region includes the entire state of Florida or 14.9% of the
Company's apartment portfolio, while the Western Region constitutes 33.7% of the
Company's apartment portfolio and includes Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nevada,
New Mexico, Arizona and Washington.
For the three months ended March 31, 1998, the Company reported increases over
the same period last year in rental income, income before gains on sales of
investments and minority interest of unitholders in operating partnership and
net income. The non-mature apartment homes provided a substantial portion of the
aggregate reported increases. However, compared to the same period last year,
net income available to common shareholders decreased $3.2 million at quarter
end March 31, 1998, with corresponding decreases of $.04 for basic and diluted
earnings per share, respectively. Net income available to common shareholders
for the first quarter of 1997 included a $2.1 million gain ($.02 per share) on
the sale of investments, while no such gains were recorded in the current
quarter. Additionally, net income available to common shareholders for the first
quarter of 1998 was reduced by $3.2 million ($.03 per share) of dividends to
holders of the Company's Series B preferred stock, issued in May 1997.
All Apartment Communities
The operating performance of the Company's 264 apartment communities with 70,057
apartment homes for the three months ended March 31, 1998 and 217 apartment
communities with 58,473 apartment homes for the three months ended March 31,
1997, respectively, is summarized in the chart below (dollars in thousands):
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
1998 1997 % Change
<S> <C>
-----------------------------------
Property rental income $ 103,865 $ 89,217 16.4%
Property operating expenses (excluding
depreciation and amortization) (40,872) (37,380) 9.3%
----------------------------------
Property operating income $ 62,993 $ 51,837 21.5%
==================================
Weighted average number
of apartment homes 63,005 56,288 11.9%
Physical occupancy 91.3% 91.4% (0.1%)
</TABLE>
<PAGE>
Due to the acquisition and development of 19,270 apartment homes since January
1, 1997, the weighted average number of apartment homes increased 11.9% to
63,005 for the three months ended March 31, 1998, which resulted in significant
increases in property rental income and property operating expenses.
Mature Apartment Communities
The operating performance for the Company's 192 mature apartment communities
with 50,787 apartment homes for the three months ended March 31, 1998 is
summarized in total and by geographic region below (dollars in thousands):
Total Mature Operating Performance
<TABLE>
<CAPTION
1998 1997 % Change
------------------------------------------
<S> <C>
Property rental income $ 84,568 $ 81,425 3.9%
Property operating expenses (excluding
depreciation and amortization) (32,931) (33,853) (2.7%)
------------------------------------------
Property operating income $ 51,637 $ 47,572 8.5%
==========================================
Physical occupancy 92.4% 91.9% 0.5%
Average monthly rents $ 590 $ 569 3.5%
</TABLE>
Mature Operating Performance (By Geographic Region)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
North South Florida
1998 1997 1998 1997 1998 1997
<S> <C>
------------------- ----------------------- -------------------
Property rental income $ 31,219 $ 30,500 $ 19,619 $ 18,738 $ 15,759 $ 14,985
Property operating
expenses (excluding
depreciation and amortization) (11,005) (11,592) (8,236) (8,368) (6,463) (6,865)
------------------- ----------------------- -------------------
Property operating income $ 20,214 $ 18,908 $ 11,383 $ 10,370 $ 9,296 $ 8,120
=================== ======================== ==================
Physical occupancy 90.8% 91.9% 92.6% 89.6% 94.8% 93.7%
Average monthly rents $ 604 $ 582 $ 552 $ 538 $ 615 $ 590
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
West Total
1998 1997 1998 1997
<S> <C>
---------------------- ---------------------
Property rental income $ 17,971 $ 17,202 $ 84,568 $ 81,425
Property operating
expenses (excluding
depreciation and amortization) (7,227) (7,028) (32,931) (33,853)
---------------------- ---------------------
Property operating income $ 10,744 $ 10,174 $ 51,637 $ 47,572
====================== ====================
Physical occupancy 93.1% 92.8% 92.4% 91.9%
Average monthly rents $ 588 $ 568 $ 590 $ 569
</TABLE>
For the three months ended March 31,1998, the Company's mature communities
provided approximately 81.4 % of the Company's property rental income and 82.0%
of its property operating income. During 1998, the Company's mature apartment
communities continued to generate strong rent growth. Compared to the same
period last year, total rental income from these apartment homes grew 3.9%, or
approximately $3.1 million, reflecting an increase in average monthly rents of
3.5% to $590 per month. In part, the increase in rental income was a result of
the Company's initiative and upgrade programs that have allowed the Company to
increase average monthly rents above the rate of inflation. In addition,
physical occupancy rose 0.5% to 92.4%, reflecting the recovery of certain major
southeastern markets that had experienced declines in early 1997. The Company
expects to maintain rent growth in the 3 1/2% to 4% range and economic occupancy
in the 92% range during the remainder of 1998. The majority of the Company's
apartment markets are in balance, providing stable occupancy and rent growth,
however, occupancy in several markets is expected to experience some softness
later during 1998.
For the three months ended March 31, 1998, property operating expenses at these
communities decreased 2.7%, or $0.9 million, resulting in a decrease in the
operating expense ratio of 2.6% to 38.9%. This decline is primarily the result
of two factors: (i) lower utility expenses directly attributable to the
Company's water sub-metering initiative and (ii) overall decreases in repairs
and maintenance and other operating expenses. The decreases in repairs and
maintenance and other operating expenses occurred as the Company has begun to
benefit from its upgrade program. In addition, the Company has taken advantage
of economies of scale due to its increased size and centralized purchasing. The
Company's objective is to maintain rental expense growth below the 2% range
during the remainder of 1998.
<PAGE>
Non-Mature Communities
The operating performance for the three months ended March 31, 1998 for the
Company's 72 non-mature apartment communities with 19,270 apartment homes is
summarized in the chart below (dollars in thousands):
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Sales Development
1997 Acquisitions 1998 Acquisitions Properties Properties Total Non-Mature
1998 1997 1998 1997 1998 1997 1998 1997 1998 1997
<S> <C>
----------------- --------------------- ------------------ -------------------- ---------------------
Property rental income $13,939 $1,102 $ 2,938 $ -- $ 700 $ 6,361 $ 1,720 $ 329 $ 19,297 $ 7,792
Property operating
expenses (excluding
depreciation and
amortization) (5,855) (316) (926) -- (436) (3,108) (724) (103) (7,941) (3,527)
----------------- -------------------- ------------------ -------------------- --------------------
Property operating
income $ 8,084 $ 786 $ 2,012 $ -- $ 264 $ 3,253 $ 996 $ 226 $ 11,356 $ 4,265
================= ==================== ================== ==================== ====================
</TABLE>
For the three months ended March 31, 1998, the Company's non-mature apartment
communities provided approximately 18.6% of the Company's property rental and
other income and 18.0% of its property operating income. For the quarter ended
March 31, 1998, these communities had physical occupancy of 86.8% (including
Development Properties undergoing lease-up) and an operating margin of 58.8%.
1997 Acquisitions
The 27 apartment communities containing 8,524 apartment homes (net of one
resold) included in this category had average monthly rental rates of $594,
physical occupancy of 90.2% and an operating margin of 58.0% for the first
quarter of 1998. The first year return on investment for these communities for
the three months ended March 31, 1998, on an average investment of approximately
$345 million, was 9.3% which approximates the Company's initial estimates.
1998 Acquisitions
Included in this category are the following: (i) the six communities with 2,076
apartment homes acquired by the Company during the first quarter of 1998 which
are projected to have a first year return on investment in the 9 1/2% range and
(ii) the 39 communities with 7,550 apartment homes included in the ASR portfolio
acquired on March 27, 1998 which are projected to have a first year return on
investment in the 9% range. These communities did not have a material impact on
the first quarter 1998 results of operations, primarily since the ASR
communities were owned for only 4 days during the first quarter of 1998.
Sales
Included in this category are the 17 communities with 4,976 apartment homes sold
as part of the Company's disposition program (see Disposition of investments
under Liquidity and Capital Resources) since January 1, 1997 (five communities
with 2,406 apartment homes were sold during the first quarter of 1998). These
communities did not have a material impact on the first quarter 1998 results of
operations.
Development
This represents the 1,120 homes developed at various times since January 1,
1997. These communities did not have a material impact on the first quarter 1998
results of operations.
Real Estate Depreciation
Real estate depreciation increased $4.8 million or 29% for the three months
ended March 31, 1998 over the same period last year. This increase is directly
attributable to the addition of depreciable real estate assets as a result of
the Company's acquisition, development and capital expenditure programs.
Interest Expense
Interest expense increased $3.7 million for the three months ended March 31,
1998 over the same period last year. The weighted average amount of debt
employed during the first three months of 1998 was higher than it was for the
same period during 1997 ($1.2 billion in 1998 versus $1.0 billion in 1997). The
weighted average interest rate on this debt was slightly higher than it was
during the same period last year, rising from 7.3% in 1997 to 7.4% in 1998. For
the three months ended March 31, 1998 and 1997, total interest capitalized was
$536,000 and $479,000, respectively.
<PAGE>
General and Administrative
During the three months ended March 31, 1998, general and administrative
expenses increased by $330,000 or 18.0% over the same period last year due to
the increased size of the Company. In 1998, the Company incurred increases in
most of its general and administrative expense categories, as it invested
heavily in its personnel and technological infrastructure as part of a strategic
plan to position the Company for future growth. Despite the significant
improvement of its infrastructure, the Company has been able to keep general and
administrative expenses flat year over year as a percentage of rental income.
Inflation
The Company believes that the direct effects of inflation on the Company's
operations have been inconsequential.
<PAGE>
PART II
Item 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Neither the Company nor any of its apartment communities is presently
subject to any material litigation nor, to the Company's knowledge, is any
litigation threatened against the Company or any of the communities, other than
routine actions arising in the ordinary course of business, some of which are
expected to be covered by liability insurance and all of which collectively are
not expected to have a material adverse effect on the business or financial
condition or results of operations of the Company.
Item 2. CHANGES IN SECURITIES
None
Item 3. DEFAULT UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None
Item 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
On May 12, 1998, the Company held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders. A
total of 76,312,225 shares of common stock, representing 83% of the shares
outstanding and entitled to vote as of the March 12, 1998 record date were
presented in person or by proxy and constituted a quorum.
At the meeting twelve (12) directors were re-elected. Each director
will serve an approximate one (1) year term until the Company's next Annual
Meeting. The following persons were elected Directors with each receiving
at least 75,219,483 shares, representing 81.9% of the total number of shares
entitled to vote at the meeting and 98.6% of the shares voted: Jeff C. Bane,
R. Toms Dalton, James Dolphin, Jon A. Grove, Barry M. Kornblau, John P.
McCann, H. Franklin Minor, Lynne B. Sagalyn, Mark J. Sandler, Robert W.
Scharar, John S. Schneider and C. Harmon Williams, Jr.
The 1985 Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") was amended as follows: (i)
limit the number of shares of Common Stock issuable on the exercise of options
outstanding at any time to 8% of the number of Common Stock issued and
outstanding at that time, subject to a maximum aggregate limit of shares that
may be issued upon the exercise of options granted under the Plan to 10,000,000,
and (ii) allow optionees to pay the exercise price of the options in
installments. The 1985 Stock Option Plan amendments received shares,
representing 44.9% of the total number of shares entitled to vote at the meeting
and 82.9% of the shares voted.
The proposal to amend the Articles of Incorporation (the "Articles") to
create a new class of equity security (Classified Common Stock) was defeated.
With respect to the proposed amendments to the Articles to conform the voting
rights of the Preferred Shareholders to the NYSE Listing manual - the meeting
was adjourned to a date to be determined no later than July 31, 1998, as a
quorum of preferred shareholders was not present.
Item 5. OTHER INFORMATION
None
<PAGE>
Item 6. EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K
(a) The exhibits listed on the accompanying index to exhibits are filed as
part of this quarterly report.
(b) A Form 8-K dated March 27, 1998 was filed with the Commission on April
13, 1998. The filing reported the merger of ASR Investment Corporation
into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company on March 27, 1998
A Form 8-K dated February 17, 1998 was filed with the Commission on
February 17, 1998. The filing contained the Pro Forma Financial
Statements of the Company for the nine months ended September 30, 1997
and the twelve months ended December 31, 1996.
A Form 8-K dated February 13, 1998 was filed with the Commission on
February 13, 1998. The filing reported the Results of Operations of the
Company for the twelve months and quarter ended December 31, 1997.
A Form 8-K dated January 27, 1998 was filed with the Commission on
February 4, 1998. The filing contained the Rights Agreement between the
Company and ChaseMellon Shareholder Services, LLC.
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT INDEX
Item 6 (a)
The exhibits listed below are filed as part of this quarterly report.
References under the caption "Location" to exhibits, forms, or other filings
indicate that the form or other filing has been filed, that the indexed exhibit
and the exhibit referred to are the same and that the exhibit referred to is
incorporated by reference.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Exhibit Description Location
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<S> <C>
1(a) Underwriting Agreement dated Filed herewith.
February 18, 1998, between the
Company and A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
1(b) Underwriting Agreement dated Filed herewith.
March 24, 1998 between the
Company and Wheat, First Securities, Inc.
2(a) Agreement and Plan of Merger dated Exhibit 2(a) to the Company's Form S-4 Registration
as of December 19, 1997, between Statement (Registration No. 333-45305) filed with
the Company, ASR Investment the Commission on January 30, 1998.
Corporation and ASR Acquisition Sub,
Inc.
2(b) Definitive Agreement and Plan of Exhibit 2(b) to the Company's Form S-4 Registration
Merger dated as of October 1, 1996, Statement (Registration No. 333-13745) filed with
the between the Company, United Sub, Commission on October 9, 1996.
Inc. and South West Property Trust Inc.
3(a) Restated Articles of Incorporation Exhibit 4(b) to the Company's Form S-3 Registration
Statement (Registration No. 333-44463)
filed with the Commission on January 16, 1998.
3(a)(i) Amendment of Articles of Exhibit 3 to the Company's Form 8-A
Incorporation Registration Statement dated February 4,
1998.
3(b) Restated By-Laws Exhibit 3(b) to the Company's Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 1997.
4(i)(a) Specimen Common Stock Exhibit 4(i) to the Company's Annual Report
Certificate on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 1993.
4(i)(b) Form of Certificate for Shares Exhibit 1(e) to the Company's Form 8-A
of 9 1/4% Series A Cumulative Registration Statement dated April 24, 1995.
Redeemable Preferred Stock
4(i)(c) Form of Certificate for Shares
of 8.60% Series B Cumulative Exhibit 1(e) to the Company's Form 8-A
Redeemable Preferred Stock Registration Statement dated June 11, 1997.
</TABLE>
<PAGE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION
<S> <C>
4(i)(d) Rights Agreement dated as of Exhibit 1 to the Company's Form 8-A
January 27, 1998, between the Company Registration Statement dated February 4, 1998.
and ChaseMellon Shareholder
Services, L.L.C., as Rights Agent.
4(i)(e) Form of Rights Certificate
Exhibit 4(e) to the Company's Form 8-A
Registration Statement dated February 4, 1998.
4(ii)(a) Loan Agreement dated as of Exhibit 6(c)(i) to the Company's Form 8-A
November 7, 1991, between the Registration Statement dated April 19, 1990.
Company and Aid Association for
Lutherans
4(ii)(e) Note Purchase Agreement dated Exhibit 6(c)(5) to the Company's Form 8-A
as of February 15, 1993, between Registration Statement dated April 19, 1990.
the Company and CIGNA Property
and Casualty Insurance Company,
Connecticut General Life Insurance
Company, Connecticut General Life
Insurance Company, on behalf of
one or more separate accounts,
Insurance Company of North
America, Principal Mutual Life
Insurance Company and Aid
Association for Lutherans
10(i) Employment Agreement between Exhibit 10(v)(i) to the Company's Annual Report on
the Company and John P. McCann Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1982.
dated October 29, 1982
10(ii) Employment Agreement between Exhibit 10(v)(ii) to the Company's Annual
Report on the Company and James Dolphin Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1982.
dated October 29, 1982.
10(iii) Employment Agreement between Exhibit 10(iv) to the Company's Annual
the Company and John S. Schneider Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
dated December 14, 1996. December 31, 1996.
10(iv) 1985 Stock Option Plan, Exhibit 10(vii) to the Company's Quarterly
as amended. Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
March 31, 1997.
10(v) 1991 Stock Purchase and Loan Exhibit 10(viii) to the Company's Quarterly Report
Plan. on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 1997.
10(vi) Second Amended and Restated Exhibit 10(ix) to the Company's Quarterly Report on
Agreement of Limited Partnership of Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,1997.
United Dominion Realty, L.P.
Dated as of August 30, 1997.
</TABLE>
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<CAPTION>
<S> <C>
10(vi)(a) Subordination Agreement dated Filed herewith.
April 16, 1998, between the
Company and United Dominion
Realty, L.P.
12 Computation of Ratio of Earnings Filed herewith.
to Fixed Charges.
</TABLE>
<PAGE>
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Quarterly Report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.
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(registrant)
Date: May 15, 1998 /s/ James Dolphin
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James Dolphin
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(a Virginia corporation)
Common Stock and Preferred Stock
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
February 18, 1998
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
One North Jefferson Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 63103
Dear Sirs:
United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the
"Company"), proposes to issue and sell shares of common stock, par value $1.00
per share (the "Common Stock"), and shares of preferred stock without par value
(the "Preferred Stock") from time to time, in one or more offerings on terms to
be determined at the time of sale. Each series of Preferred Stock may vary as to
the specific number of shares, title, stated value, liquidation preference,
issuance price, ranking, dividend rate or rates (or method of calculation),
dividend payment dates, any redemption or sinking fund requirements, any
conversion provisions and any other variable terms as set forth in the
applicable Articles of Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation
(each, the "Articles of Amendment") relating to such series of Preferred Stock.
As used herein, "Securities" shall mean the Common Stock and the Preferred
Stock. As used herein, "you" and "your," unless the context otherwise requires,
shall mean the parties to whom this Agreement is addressed together with the
other parties, if any, identified in the applicable Terms Agreement (as
hereinafter defined) as additional co-managers with respect to Underwritten
Securities (as hereinafter defined) purchased pursuant thereto.
Whenever the Company determines to make an offering of Securities
through you or through an underwriting syndicate managed by you, the Company
will enter into an agreement (the "Terms Agreement") providing for the sale of
such Securities (the "Underwritten Securities") to, and the purchase and
offering thereof by, you and such other underwriters, if any, selected by you as
have authorized you to enter into such Terms Agreement on their behalf (the
"Underwriters," which term shall include you whether acting alone in the sale of
the Underwritten Securities or as a member of an underwriting syndicate and any
Underwriter substituted pursuant to Section 10 hereof). The Terms Agreement
relating to the offering of Underwritten Securities shall specify the number of
Underwritten Securities of each class or series to be initially issued (the
"Initial Underwritten Securities"), the names of the Underwriters participating
in such offering (subject to substitution as provided in Section 10 hereof), the
number of Initial Underwritten Securities which each such Underwriter severally
agrees to purchase, the names of such of you or such other Underwriters acting
as co-managers, if any, in connection with such offering, the price at which the
Initial Underwritten Securities are to be purchased by the Underwriters from the
Company, the initial public offering price, the time, date and place of delivery
and payment, any delayed delivery arrangements and any other variable terms of
the Initial Underwritten Securities (including, but not limited to, current
ratings (in the case of Preferred Stock only), designations, liquidation
preferences, conversion provisions, redemption provisions and sinking fund
requirements). In addition, each Terms Agreement shall specify whether the
Company has agreed to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase additional
Underwritten Securities to cover over-allotments, if any, and the number of
Underwritten Securities subject to such option (the "Option Securities"). As
used herein, the term "Underwritten Securities" shall include the Initial
Underwritten Securities and all or any portion of the Option Securities agreed
to be purchased by the Underwriters as provided herein, if any. The Terms
Agreement, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, may
take the form of an exchange of any standard form of written telecommunication
between you and the Company. Each offering of Underwritten Securities through
you or through an underwriting syndicate managed by you will be governed by this
Agreement, as supplemented by the applicable Terms Agreement.
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The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") a registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-27221) for the
registration of the Securities (including the Underwritten Securities) and
certain of the Company's debt securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "1933 Act"), and the offering thereof from time to time in
accordance with Rule 415 of the rules and regulations of the Commission under
the 1933 Act (the "1933 Act Regulations"), and the Company has filed such
amendments thereto as may have been required prior to the execution of the
applicable Terms Agreement. Such registration statement (as amended, if
applicable) has been declared effective by the Commission. Such registration
statement (as amended, if applicable), on the one hand, and the prospectus
constituting a part thereof and each prospectus supplement relating to the
offering of Underwritten Securities provided to the Underwriters for use
(whether or not such prospectus supplement is required to be filed by the
Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations)(the "Prospectus
Supplement"), on the other hand, including in each case all documents
incorporated therein by reference and the information, if any, deemed to be a
part thereof pursuant to Rule 430A(b) or Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations,
as from time to time amended or supplemented pursuant to the 1933Act, the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), or otherwise, are
referred to herein as the "Registration Statement" and the "Prospectus,"
respectively; provided, however, that a Prospectus Supplement shall be deemed to
have supplemented the Prospectus only with respect to the offering of
Underwritten Securities to which it relates. All references in this Agreement to
financial statements and schedules and other information which is "contained,"
"included" or "stated" in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (and all
other references of like import) shall be deemed to mean and include all such
financial statements and schedules and other information which is or is deemed
to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus,
as the case may be; and all references in this Agreement to amendments or
supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be deemed to
mean and include, without limitation, any document filed under the1934 Act which
is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus, as the case may be. If the Company elects to rely on Rule 434
under the 1933 Act Regulations, all references to the Prospectus shall be deemed
to include, without limitation, the form of prospectus and the abbreviated term
sheet, taken together, provided to the Underwriters by the Company in reliance
on Rule 434 under the 1933 Act (the "Rule 434 Prospectus"). If the Company files
a registration statement to register a portion of the Securities and relies on
Rule 462(b) for such registration statement to become effective upon filing with
the Commission (the "Rule 462 Registration Statement"), then any reference to
"Registration Statement" herein shall be deemed to be to both the registration
statement referred to above (No. 333-27221) and the Rule 462 Registration
Statement, as each such registration statement may be amended pursuant to the
1933 Act.
Section 1. Representations and Warranties.
(a) The Company represents and warrants to you, as of the date hereof,
and to you and each other Underwriter named in the applicable Terms Agreement,
as of the date thereof (such latter date being referred to herein as a
"Representation Date"), as follows:
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(i) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus, at the time
the Registration Statement became effective, complied, and as of the
applicable Representation Date will comply, in all material respects
with the requirements of the 1933 Act and 1933 Act Regulations; the
Registration Statement, at the time the Registration Statement became
effective, did not and as of the applicable Representation Date will
not, contain 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 Prospectus, as of the date
hereof does not, and as of the applicable Representation Date and at
Closing Time (as hereinafter defined) will not, include 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 under which they were made, not misleading; provided,
however, that the representations and warranties in this subsection
shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity
with information furnished to the Company in writing by any Underwriter
through you expressly for use in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus.
(ii) The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
by reference in the Prospectus pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under
the 1933 Act, at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the
Commission, complied and 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"), and, when
read together with the other information in the Prospectus, at the time
the Registration Statement became effective and as of the applicable
Representation Date or Closing Time or during the period specified in
Section 3(f), did not and will not include an untrue statement of
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(iii) The accountants who certified the financial statements
and supporting schedules included in, or incorporated by reference
into, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus are independent
public accountants as required by the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act
Regulations.
(iv) The financial statements and supporting schedules
included in, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects
the financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the
dates indicated and the results of their operations for the periods
specified; except as otherwise stated in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus, said financial statements have been prepared in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a
consistent basis; and the supporting schedules included or incorporated
by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus present
fairly in all material respects the information required to be stated
therein.
(v) Since the respective dates as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, except as
otherwise stated therein, (A) there has been no material adverse change
or development involving a prospective material adverse change in or
affecting the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings,
business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its
subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not occurring in
the Ordinary course of business, (B) there have been no transactions or
acquisitions entered into by the Company or any of its subsidiaries
other than those arising in the ordinary course of business, and (C)
except for regular quarterly dividends on the Company's shares of
common stock, or dividends declared, paid or made in accordance with
the terms of any series of the Company's preferred stock, there has
been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by
the Company on any series of its common stock or preferred stock.
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(vi) The Company has been duly organized and is validly
existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, with full power and authority to own, lease
and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the
Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to transact business in
all jurisdictions in which the conduct of its business requires such
qualification except where the failure to so qualify would not have a
material adverse effect on the condition, financial or otherwise, or
the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company.
(vii) Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly organized
and is validly existing as a corporation, limited liability company,
limited partnership, business trust or real estate investment trust in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation
or organization, with power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus
except where the failure to so be in good standing would not have a
material adverse effect on the condition, financial or otherwise, or
the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and
its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise; each such subsidiary is
duly qualified to transact business in all jurisdictions in which the
conduct of its business requires such qualification, or in which the
failure to qualify would have a materially adverse effect upon the
business of such subsidiary; all of the issued and outstanding capital
stock of each such corporate subsidiary and all of the issued and
outstanding shares of beneficial interest of each such real estate
investment trust subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly
issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by the Company
free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien,
encumbrance, claim or equity; and the Company and one such corporate
subsidiary are the only members of the Company's limited liability
company or limited partnership subsidiaries and own the entire
membership or general partnership interest in each such subsidiary free
and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien,
encumbrance, claim or equity.
(viii) If applicable, the authorized, issued and outstanding
shares of common and preferred stock of the Company are as set forth in
the Prospectus under "Capitalization" (except for subsequent issuances,
if any, pursuant to reservations, agreements or the conversion of
convertible securities referred to in the Registration Statement
including, without limitation, the exercise or grant of stock options
pursuant to the Company's stock option plan or the issuance of shares
pursuant to the Company's dividend reinvestment plan, stock purchase
and loan plan or employees' stock purchase plan); and such shares of
common stock and preferred stock of the Company have been duly
authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and
are not subject to preemptive or other similar rights.
(ix) The applicable Underwritten Securities have been duly
authorized by the Company for issuance and sale pursuant to this
Agreement and, when issued and delivered pursuant to this Agreement
against payment of the consideration therefor specified in the
applicable Terms Agreement or any Delayed Delivery Contract (as
hereinafter defined), such Underwritten Securities will be duly and
validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the Preferred Stock, if
applicable, conforms to the provisions of the Articles of Amendment;
such Underwritten Securities conform in all material respects to all
statements relating thereto contained in the Prospectus; and the
issuance of such Underwritten Securities is not subject to preemptive
or other similar rights.
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(x) If applicable, the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of any of the Preferred Stock will have been duly and
validly authorized and reserved for issuance upon such conversion or
exercise by all necessary corporate action and such shares, when issued
upon such conversion or exercise, will be duly and validly issued,
fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such shares upon
such conversion or exercise will not be subject to preemptive or other
similar rights; the Common Stock so issuable conforms in all material
respects to all statements relating thereto contained in the
Prospectus.
(xi) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in
violation of its Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws or in default in
the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or
condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan
agreement, note, lease (other than as disclosed in the Prospectus) or
other 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 property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is
subject and which default is of material significance in respect of the
business or financial condition of the Company and its subsidiaries
considered as one enterprise; and the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement and
the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and therein
and compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder and
thereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action
on the part of the Company, and will not conflict with or constitute a
breach of, or default under, or result in the creation or imposition of
any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to any contract, indenture,
mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other 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 property or assets of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is subject, or result in any violation of the
Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of the Company or any law,
administrative regulation or administrative or court decree.
(xii) With respect to all tax periods regarding which the
Internal Revenue Service is or will be entitled to assert any claim,
the Company has met the requirements for qualification as a real estate
investment trust under Sections 856 through 860 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), and the Company's present and
contemplated operations, assets and income continue to meet such
requirements.
(xiii) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the
offering and sale of the underwritten Securities, will not be an
"investment company" or an entity "controlled" by an "investment
company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the "1940 Act").
(xiv) The conditions for use of registration statements on
Form S-3 set forth in the General Instructions on Form S-3 have been
satisfied and the Company is entitled to use such form for the
transaction contemplated herein and in any applicable Terms Agreement.
(xv) There is no action, suit or proceeding before or by any
court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending,
or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or
any of its subsidiaries which is required to be disclosed in the
Prospectus (other than as disclosed therein) or which might result in
any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise,
or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the
Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or which
might materially and adversely affect the properties or assets thereof
or which might materially and adversely affect the consummation of this
Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement or the transactions
contemplated herein and therein; all pending legal or governmental
proceedings to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party
or of which any of their respective property is the subject which are
not described in the Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation
incidental to the business, are, considered in the aggregate, not
material; and there are no contracts or documents of the Company or any
of its subsidiaries which would be required to be filed as exhibits to
the Registration Statement by the 1933 Act or by the 1933 Act
Regulations which have not been filed as exhibits to the Registration
Statement.
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(xvi) No authorization, approval or consent of any
governmental authority or agency is necessary in connection with the
consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement, except such as may be
required under the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations or state
securities or Blue Sky laws.
(xvii) The Company has full right, power and authority to
enter into this Agreement, the applicable Terms Agreement and the
Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, and this Agreement has been, and as
of the applicable Representation Date, the applicable Terms Agreement
and the delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, will have been, duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(xviii) The Company and its subsidiaries have good and
marketable title to, or valid and enforceable leasehold estates in, all
items of real and personal property referred to in the Prospectus as
owned or leased by them, in each case free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances, claims, security interests and defects, other than those
referred to in the Prospectus or which are not material in amount. Each
lease of real property by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as
lessor requiring annual lease payments in excess of $100,000 is the
legal, valid and binding obligation of the lessee in accordance with
its terms (except that the remedy of specific performance and
injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to
equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any
proceeding therefor may be brought and to the Bankruptcy Act) and the
rents which at present have remained due and unpaid for more than 30
days are not payable under leases such that, were no further rental
payments to be received under such leases, the financial condition or
results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries would be
materially adversely affected thereby. The Company has no reason to
believe that the lessee under any lease (excluding leases for which
rent payments due for the remainder of such lease are less than
$500,000) calling for annual lease payments in excess of $500,000 is
not financially capable of performing its obligations thereunder.
(xix) The Company has filed all Federal, local and foreign
income tax returns which have been required to be filed and has paid
all taxes indicated by said returns and all assessments received by it
to the extent that such taxes have become due and are not being
contested in good faith.
(xx) The Company and each of its subsidiaries hold all
material licenses, certificates and permits from governmental
authorities which are necessary to the conduct of their respective
businesses; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
infringed any patents, patent rights, trade names, trademarks or
copyrights, which infringement is material to the business of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries.
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(xxi) The Company has no knowledge of (a) the unlawful
presence of any hazardous substances, hazardous materials, toxic
substances or waste materials (collectively, "Hazardous Materials") on
any of the properties owned by it or any of its subsidiaries, or of (b)
any unlawful spills, releases, discharges or disposal of Hazardous
Materials that have occurred or are presently occurring off such
properties as a result of any construction on or operation and use of
such properties which presence or occurrence would materially adversely
affect the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business
affairs or business prospects of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries. In connection with the construction on or operation and
use of the properties owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries,
the Company represents that it has no knowledge of any material failure
to comply with all applicable local, state and federal environmental
laws, regulations, ordinances and administrative and judicial orders
relating to the generation, recycling, reuse, sale, storage, handling,
transport and disposal of any Hazardous Materials.
(b) Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered
to you or to counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the
Underwritten Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the
Company to each Underwriter participating in such offering as to the matters
covered thereby on the date of such certificate and, unless subsequently amended
or supplemented, at the applicable Representation Date subsequent thereto.
Section 2. Purchase and Sale.
(a) The several commitments of the Underwriters to purchase the
Underwritten Securities pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement shall be
deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties
herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set
forth.
(b) In addition, on the basis of the representations and warranties
herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the
Company may grant, if so provided in the applicable Terms Agreement relating to
the Initial Underwritten Securities, an option to the Underwriters named in such
Terms Agreement, severally and not jointly, to purchase up to the number of
Option Securities set forth therein at the same price per Option Security as is
applicable to the Initial Underwritten Securities less an amount equal to any
dividend paid by the Company and payable on the Initial Underwritten Securities
and not payable on such Option Securities. Such option, if granted, will expire
30 days (or such lesser number of days as may be specified in the applicable
Terms Agreement) after the Representation Date relating to the Initial
Underwritten Securities, and may be exercised in whole or in part from time to
time only for the purpose of covering over-allotments which may be made in
connection with the offering and distribution of the Initial Underwritten
Securities upon notice by you 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, date and place of delivery (a "Date of Delivery") shall be determined
by you, but shall not be later than seven full business days nor earlier than
two full business days after the exercise of said option, nor in any event prior
to Closing Time, unless otherwise agreed upon by you and the Company. 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 Underwritten Securities each such Underwriter has
severally agreed to purchase as set forth in the applicable Terms Agreement
bears to the total number of Initial Underwritten Securities (except as
otherwise provided in the applicable Terms Agreement), subject to such
adjustments as you in your discretion shall make to eliminate any sales or
purchases of fractional Underwritten Securities.
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(c) Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of, the
Underwritten Securities to be purchased by the Underwriters shall be made at the
office of A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., 77 Water Street, New York, New York , or at
such other place as shall be agreed upon by you and the Company, at 10:00 A.M.,
St. Louis time, on the third business day (unless postponed in accordance with
the provisions of Section 10 herein) following the date of the applicable Terms
Agreement or, if pricing takes place after 4:30 P.M., St. Louis time, on the
date of the applicable Terms Agreement, on the fourth business day (unless
postponed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10) following the date of
the applicable Terms Agreement or at such other time as shall be agreed upon by
you and the Company (each such time and date of payment and delivery being
referred to herein as the "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 representing, such Option
Securities, shall be made at the above-mentioned offices of A.G. Edwards & Sons,
Inc., or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by you and the Company on
each Date of Delivery as specified in the notice from you to the Company. Unless
otherwise specified in the applicable Terms Agreement, payment shall be made to
the Company by certified or official bank check or checks in New York Clearing
House funds payable to the order of the Company against delivery to you for the
respective accounts of the Underwriters of the certificates for the Underwritten
Securities to be purchased by them. The Underwritten Securities shall be in such
authorized denominations and registered in such names as you may request in
writing at least one business day prior to the Closing Time or Date of Delivery,
as the case may be. The Underwritten Securities, which may be in temporary form,
will be made available for examination and packaging by you on or before 3:00
P.M. on the first business day prior to the Closing Time or the Date of
Delivery, as the case may be.
If authorized by the applicable Terms Agreement, the Underwriters named
therein may solicit offers to purchase Underwritten Securities from the Company
pursuant to delayed delivery contracts ("Delayed Delivery Contracts")
substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto with such changes therein as the
Company may approve. As compensation for arranging Delayed Delivery Contracts,
the Company will pay to you at Closing Time, for the respective accounts of the
Underwriters, a fee specified in the applicable Terms Agreement for each of the
Underwritten Securities for which Delayed Delivery Contracts are made at the
Closing Time as is specified in the applicable Terms Agreement. Any Delayed
Delivery Contracts are to be with institutional investors of the types described
in the Prospectus. At the Closing Time, the Company will enter into Delayed
Delivery Contracts (for not less than the minimum number of Underwritten
Securities per Delayed Delivery Contract specified in the applicable Terms
Agreement) with all purchasers proposed by the Underwriters and previously
approved by the Company as provided below, but not for an aggregate number of
Underwritten Securities in excess of that specified in the applicable Terms
Agreement. The Underwriters will not have any responsibility for the validity or
performance of Delayed Delivery Contracts.
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You shall submit to the Company, at least two business days prior to
the Closing Time, the names of any institutional investors with which it is
proposed that the Company will enter into Delayed Delivery Contracts and the
number of Underwritten Securities to be purchased by each of them, and the
Company will advise you, at least one business day prior to the Closing Time, of
the names of the institutions with which the making of Delayed Delivery
Contracts is approved by the Company and the number of Underwritten Securities
to be covered by each such Delayed Delivery Contract.
The number of Underwritten Securities agreed to be purchased by the
several Underwriters pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement shall be reduced
by the number of Underwritten Securities covered by Delayed Delivery Contracts,
as to each Underwriter as set forth in a written notice delivered by you to the
Company; provided, however, that the total number of Underwritten Securities to
be purchased by all Underwriters shall be the total number of Underwritten
Securities covered by the applicable Terms Agreement, less the number of
Underwritten Securities covered by Delayed Delivery Contracts.
Section 3. Covenants of the Company.
The Company covenants with you, and with each Underwriter participating
in the offering of Underwritten Securities, as follows:
(a) If the Company does not elect to rely on Rule 434 under the 1933
Act Regulations, immediately following the execution of the applicable Terms
Agreement, the Company will prepare a Prospectus Supplement setting forth the
number of Underwritten Securities covered thereby and their terms not otherwise
specified in the Prospectus pursuant to which the Underwritten Securities are
being issued, the names of the Underwriters participating in the offering and
the number of Underwritten Securities which each severally has agreed to
purchase, the names of the Underwriters acting as co-managers in connection with
the offering, the price at which the Underwritten Securities are to be purchased
by the Underwriters from the Company, the initial public offering price, if any,
the selling concession and reallowance, if any, any delayed delivery
arrangements, and such other information as you and the Company deem appropriate
in connection with the offering of the Underwritten Securities; and the Company
will promptly transmit copies of the Prospectus Supplement to the Commission for
filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations and will furnish to
the Underwriters named therein as many copies of the Prospectus (including such
Prospectus Supplement) as you shall reasonably request. If the Company elects to
rely on Rule 434 under the 1933 Act Regulations, immediately following the
execution of the applicable Terms Agreement, the Company will prepare an
abbreviated term sheet that complies with the requirements of Rule 434 under the
1933 Act Regulations and will provide the Underwriters with copies of the form
of Rule 434 Prospectus, in such number as you shall reasonably request, and, if
necessary, promptly file or transmit for filing with the Commission the form of
Prospectus complying with Rule 434(c)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations in
accordance with Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations.
(b) The Company will notify you immediately, and confirm such notice in
writing, of (i) the effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration
Statement, (ii) the transmittal to the Commission for filing of any Prospectus
Supplement or other supplement or amendment to the Prospectus to be filed
pursuant to the 1934 Act, (iii) the receipt of any comments from the Commission,
(iv) any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration
Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for additional
information, and (v) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending
the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any
proceedings for that purpose; and the Company will make every reasonable effort
to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and, if any stop order is issued,
to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.
(c) At any time when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under
the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act in connection with sales of the Underwritten
Securities, the Company will give you notice of its intention to file or prepare
any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to
the Prospectus, whether pursuant to the 1933 Act, 1934 Act or otherwise
(including any revised prospectus which the Company proposes for use by the
Underwriters in connection with an offering of Underwritten Securities which
differs from the Prospectus on file at the Commission at the time the
Registration Statement first becomes effective, whether or not such revised
prospectus is required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act
Regulations, or any abbreviated term sheet prepared in reliance on Rule 434 of
the 1933 Act Regulations), and will furnish you with copies of any such
amendment or supplement or other documents proposed to be used or filed a
reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing and, unless required by
law, will not file or use any such amendment or supplement or other documents in
a form to which you or counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object.
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(d) The Company will deliver to each Underwriter a signed copy of the
Registration Statement as originally filed and of each amendment thereto
(including exhibits filed therewith and documents incorporated by reference
therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act) as you reasonably
request and will also deliver to each Underwriter a conformed copy of the
Registration Statement as originally filed and of each amendment thereto
(including documents incorporated by reference but without exhibits).
(e) The Company will furnish to each Underwriter, from time to time
during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933
Act or the 1934 Act in connection with sales of the Underwritten Securities,
such number of copies of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as such
Underwriter may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated by the 1933
Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Regulations.
(f) If at any time when the Prospectus is required to be delivered
under the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act in connection with sales of the Underwritten
Securities any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is
necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, to amend or
supplement the Prospectus in order that the Prospectus will not include an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any 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 if it
shall be necessary, in the opinion of such counsel, at any such time to amend or
supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to comply with
the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations, then the Company
will promptly prepare and file with the Commission such amendment or supplement,
whether by filing documents pursuant to the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or otherwise,
as may be necessary to correct such untrue statement or omission or to make the
Registration Statement and Prospectus comply with such requirements.
(g) If applicable, the Company will endeavor, in cooperation with the
Underwriters, to qualify the Underwritten Securities and the Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock, if any, for offering and sale
under the applicable securities laws and real estate syndication laws of such
states and other jurisdictions of the United States as you may designate; and in
each jurisdiction in which the Underwritten Securities and the Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock, if any, have been so qualified,
the Company will file such statements and reports as may be required by the laws
of such jurisdiction to continue such qualification in effect for so long as may
be required for the distribution of the Underwritten Securities and the Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock, if any; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be obligated to qualify as a foreign
corporation in any jurisdiction where it is not so qualified.
(h) With respect to each sale of Underwritten Securities, the Company
will make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable,
but not later than 90 days after the close of the period covered thereby, an
earnings statement (in form complying with the provisions of Rule 158 of the
1933 Act Regulations) covering a twelve month period beginning not later than
the first day of the Company's fiscal quarter next following the "effective
date" (as defined in such Rule 158) of the Registration Statement.
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(i) The Company will continue to elect to qualify as a "real estate
investment trust" under the Code and will use its best efforts to continue to
meet the requirements to qualify as a "real estate investment trust."
(j) The Company, during the period when the Prospectus is required to
be delivered under the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act in connection with sales of the
Underwritten Securities, will file promptly all documents required to be filed
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15 of the 1934 Act within the
time periods prescribed by the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations.
(k) If the Preferred Stock is convertible into Common Stock, the
Company will reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights
or other similar rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the
purpose of enabling the Company to satisfy any obligations to issue such shares
upon conversion of the Preferred Stock.
(l) If the Preferred Stock is convertible into Common Stock, the
Company will use its best efforts to list the shares of Common Stock issuable
upon conversion of the Preferred Stock on the New York Stock Exchange or such
other national exchange on which the Company's Common Stock is then listed.
(m) The Company will use its best efforts to list the Underwritten
Securities on the New York Stock Exchange.
(n) The Company will use the net proceeds received by it from the sale
of the Underwritten Securities in the manner specified in the Prospectus under
the caption "Use of Proceeds."
Section 4. Payment of Expenses.
The Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its
obligations under this Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement, including
(i) the printing and filing of the Registration Statement as originally filed
and of each amendment thereto, (ii) the cost of printing, filing and
distributing to the Underwriters copies of this Agreement and the applicable
Terms Agreement, (iii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the
Underwritten Securities to the Underwriters, (iv) the fees and disbursements of
the Company's counsel and accountants, (v) if applicable, the qualification of
the Underwritten Securities and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the
Preferred Stock, if any, under securities laws and real estate syndication laws
in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(g), including filing fees and the
fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith
and in connection with the preparation of the Blue Sky Survey, (vi) the printing
and delivery to the Underwriters of copies of the Registration Statement as
originally filed and of each amendment thereto, and of the Prospectus and any
amendments or supplements thereto, including each abbreviated term sheet
delivered by the Company pursuant to Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations, (vii)
the cost of reproducing and distributing to the Underwriters copies of the Blue
Sky Survey, (viii) any fees charged by nationally recognized statistical rating
organizations for the rating of the Underwritten Securities, (ix) the fees and
expenses, if any, incurred with respect to the listing of the Underwritten
Securities or the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock,
if any, on any national securities exchange, and (x) the fees and expenses, if
any, incurred with respect to any filing with the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc.
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If the applicable Terms Agreement is canceled or terminated by you in
accordance with the provisions of Section 5 or Section 9(b)(i), the Company
shall reimburse the Underwriters named in such Terms Agreement for all of their
out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of
counsel for the Underwriters.
Section 5. Conditions of Underwriters' Obligations.
The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase Underwritten
Securities pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement are subject to the
accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained,
to the accuracy of the statements of the Company's officers made in any
certificate pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company
of all of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the following
further conditions:
(a) At Closing Time, (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of
the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the 1933 Act or
proceedings therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission and (ii) if
Preferred Stock is being offered, the rating assigned by any nationally
recognized statistical rating organization to any preferred stock of the Company
as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement shall not have been lowered
since such date nor shall any such rating organization have publicly announced
that it has placed the Company on what is commonly termed a "watch list" for
possible downgrading.
(b) At Closing Time, you shall have received:
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(1) The favorable opinion, dated as of Closing Time,
of Hunton & Williams, counsel for the Company, in form and
substance satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, to the
effect that:
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(i) The Company has been duly organized and
is validly existing as a corporation and in good
standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, with corporate power and authority to own
its properties and conduct its business as described
in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented.
(ii) The Company is duly qualified to
transact business in all jurisdictions in which the
conduct of its business requires such qualification,
or in which the failure to qualify would have a
materially adverse effect upon the business of the
Company.
(iii) Each subsidiary of the Company has
been duly organized and is validly existing as a
corporation, limited liability company, limited
partnership or real estate investment trust in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or organization, with power and
authority to own its properties and conduct its
business as described in the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented except where the failure to so be in
good standing would not have a material adverse
effect on the condition, financial or otherwise, or
the earnings, business affairs or business prospects
of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as
one enterprise; each such subsidiary is duly
qualified to transact business in all jurisdictions
in which the conduct of its business requires such
qualification, or in which the failure to qualify
would have a materially adverse effect upon the
business of such subsidiary; all of the issued and
outstanding capital stock of each such corporate
subsidiary and all of the issued and outstanding
shares of beneficial interest of each such real
estate investment trust subsidiary have been duly
authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and
non-assessable and are owned by the Company free and
clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge,
lien, encumbrance, claim or equity; and the company
one such corporate subsidiary are the only members of
the Company's limited liability company or limited
partnership subsidiaries and own the entire
membership or general partnership interest in each
such subsidiary free and clear of any security
interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, claim
or equity.
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(iv) The Company has authorized and
outstanding capital stock as set forth in the
Prospectus under "Capitalization" (except for
subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to
reservations, agreements or the conversion of
convertible securities referred to in the
Registration Statement including, without limitation,
the exercise or grant of stock options pursuant to
the Company's stock option plan or the issuance of
shares pursuant to the Company's dividend
reinvestment plan, stock purchase and loan plan or
employees' stock purchase plan); the authorized
capital stock of the Company has been duly
authorized; and the outstanding shares of capital
stock of the Company have been duly authorized and
validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable
and are not subject to preemptive or other similar
rights arising by operation of law or, to the best of
such counsel's knowledge, otherwise.
(v) The applicable Underwritten Securities
have been duly and validly authorized by all
necessary corporate action and, when issued and
delivered pursuant to this Agreement against payment
of the consideration therefor specified in the
applicable Terms Agreement or the Delayed Delivery
Contracts, the applicable Underwritten Securities
will be validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable; the Underwritten Securities are not
subject to preemptive or other similar rights arising
by operation of law or, to the best of such counsel's
knowledge, otherwise; and the Preferred Stock, if
applicable, conforms to the provisions of the
Articles of Amendment.
(vi) If applicable, the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of any of the
Preferred Stock have been duly and validly authorized
and reserved for issuance upon such conversion or
exercise by all necessary corporate action and such
shares, when issued upon such conversion or exercise,
will be duly and validly issued and will be fully
paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such
shares upon such conversion or exercise will not be
subject to preemptive or other similar rights arising
by operation of law or, to the best of such counsel's
knowledge, otherwise.
(vii) Each of this Agreement, the applicable
Terms Agreement and the Delayed Delivery Contracts,
if any, has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company.
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(viii) The Registration Statement is
effective under the 1933 Act and, to the best of such
counsel's knowledge, no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been
issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings therefor
initiated or threatened by the Commission.
(ix) The Registration Statement and the
Prospectus, excluding the documents incorporated by
reference therein, as of their respective effective
or issue dates, comply as to form in all material
respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and
the 1933 Act Regulations; it being understood,
however, that no opinion need be rendered with
respect to the financial statements, schedules and
other financial and statistical data included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus. If applicable, the Rule
434 Prospectus conforms in all material aspects to
the requirements of Rule 434 under the 1933 Act
Regulations.
(x) Each document filed pursuant to the 1934
Act (other than the financial statements, schedules
and other financial and statistical data included
therein, as to which no opinion need be rendered) and
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference in the Prospectus complied when so filed
(or as when amended prior to the Representation Date)
as to form in all material respects with the 1934 Act
and the 1934 Act Regulations.
(xi) If applicable, the relative rights,
preferences, interests and powers of the Preferred
Stock are as set forth in the Articles of Amendment
relating thereto, and all such provisions are valid
under applicable Virginia law; and the form of
certificate used to evidence the Preferred Stock is
in due and proper form under applicable Virginia law,
and complies in all material respects with all
applicable statutory requirements.
(xii) The Underwritten Securities and, if
applicable, the Common Stock issuable upon conversion
of the Preferred Stock conform in all material
respects to the statements relating thereto contained
in the Prospectus.
(xiii) To the best of such counsel's
knowledge and information, there are no legal or
governmental proceedings pending or threatened which
are required to be disclosed in the Prospectus, other
than those disclosed therein, and all pending legal
or governmental proceedings to which the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of
the property of the Company or its subsidiaries is
the subject which are not described in the
Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation
incidental to the business, are, considered in the
aggregate, not material to the business of the
Company and its subsidiaries considered as one
enterprise.
(xiv) To the best of such counsel's
knowledge and information, there are no contracts,
indentures, mortgages, loan agreements, notes, leases
or other instruments required to be described or
referred to in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the
Registration Statement other than those described or
referred to therein or filed as exhibits thereto, the
descriptions thereof or references thereto are
correct, and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge
and information, no default exists in the due
performance or observance of any obligation,
agreement, covenant or condition contained in any
contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note,
lease or other instrument so described, referred to
or filed which would have a material adverse effect
on the condition, financial or otherwise, or on the
earnings, business affairs or business prospects of
the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one
enterprise.
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(xv) No authorization, approval or consent
of any court or governmental authority or agency is
required that has not been obtained in connection
with the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the
applicable Terms Agreement, except such as may be
required under the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act and state
securities laws or real estate syndication laws.
(xvi) To the best of such counsel's
knowledge and information, the execution and delivery
of this Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
herein and therein and compliance by the Company with
its obligations hereunder and thereunder will not
conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default
under or result in the creation or imposition of any
lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or
assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
pursuant to any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan
agreement, note, lease or other instrument to which
the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or
by which they may be bound or to which any of the
property or assets of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is subject, nor will such action result
in violation of the provisions of the Articles of
Incorporation or By-Laws of the Company or any law,
administrative regulation or court decree.
(xvii) The Company is not required to be
registered under the 1940 Act.
(xviii) The statements under the caption
"Description of Capital Stock" in the Prospectus,
insofar as such statements constitute a summary of
documents referred to therein or matters of law, are
accurate summaries and fairly and correctly present
the information called for with respect to such
documents and matters.
(2) The favorable opinion, dated as of Closing Time,
of Hunton & Williams, counsel for the Company, in form and substance
satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, to the effect that the
Company has qualified to be taxed as a real estate investment trust
pursuant to Sections 856 through 860 of the Code for its most recently
ended fiscal year and for the four fiscal years immediately preceding
such year, and the Company's organization and contemplated method of
operation are such as to enable it to continue to so qualify for its
current fiscal year.
(3) The favorable opinion, dated as of the Closing
Time, of Chapman and Cutler, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect
to the due organization of the Company and the matters set forth in (v)
to (ix), inclusive, and (xii), (xv) and (xviii) of subsection (b)(1) of
this Section. In rendering their opinion, Chapman and Cutler may rely
as to matters of Virginia law upon the opinion of Hunton & Williams.
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(4) In giving their opinions required by subsections
(b)(1) and (b)(3), respectively, of this Section, Chapman and Cutler
shall each additionally state that nothing has come to their attention
that would lead them to believe that the Registration Statement or any
amendment thereto (excluding the financial statements and financial
schedules included or incorporated by reference therein, as to which
such counsel need express no belief), at the time it became effective
or at the time an Annual Report on Form 10-K was filed by the Company
with the Commission (whichever is later), or at the Representation
Date, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading or that the Prospectus or
any amendment or supplement thereto (excluding the financial statements
and financial schedules included or incorporated by reference therein,
as to which such counsel need express no belief), at the Representation
Date or at Closing Time, included or includes an untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted or omits 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.
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(c) At Closing Time, there shall not have been, since the date of the
applicable Terms Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information
is given in the Prospectus, any material adverse change in the condition,
financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business
prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise,
whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business; and you shall have
received a certificate of the President and Chief Executive Officer and the
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, or other
authorized officer(s) of the Company approved by you, dated as of such Closing
Time, to the effect that (i) there has been no such material adverse change and
(ii) the representations and warranties in Section 1 are true and correct with
the same force and effect as though such Closing Time were a Representation
Date. As used in this Section 5(c), the term "Prospectus" means the Prospectus
in the form first used to confirm sales of the Underwritten Securities.
(d) At the time of execution of the applicable Terms Agreement, you
shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter dated such date, in form and
substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that (i) they are independent
accountants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning
of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and the applicable published rules and
regulations thereunder; (ii) it is their opinion that the consolidated financial
statements and supporting schedules of the Company and its subsidiaries included
or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
and covered by their opinions therein comply in form in all material respects
with the applicable accounting requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and
the related published rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) based upon limited
procedures set forth in detail in such letter (which shall include, without
limitation, the procedures specified by the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants for a review of interim financial information as described in
SAS No. 71, Interim Financial Information, with respect to the unaudited
condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement), nothing
came to their attention that caused them to believe that (A) any material
modifications should be made to the unaudited financial statements and financial
statement schedules of the Company and its subsidiaries included or incorporated
by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus for them to be in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, (B) the unaudited
financial statements and financial statement schedules of the Company included
or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus do
not comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting
requirements of the 1934 Act and the related published rules and regulations
thereunder, or (C) at a specified date not more than three days prior to the
date of the applicable Terms Agreement, there has been any change in the capital
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stock of the Company or in the notes payable or mortgage notes payable of the
Company or any decrease in the total assets of the Company, as compared with the
amounts shown in the most recent consolidated balance sheet included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or,
during the period from the date of the most recent consolidated statement of
operations included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus to a specified date not more than three days prior to the
date of the applicable Terms Agreement, there were any decreases, as compared
with the corresponding period in the preceding year, in rental income or in the
total or per share amounts of net income or income before gains (losses) on
investments and extraordinary items of the Company, except in all instances for
changes, increases or decreases which the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus disclose have occurred or may occur; (iv) they have compared the
information in the Prospectus under selected captions with the disclosure
requirements of Regulation S-K and on the basis of limited procedures specified
in such letter nothing came to their attention as a result of the foregoing
procedures that caused them to believe that this information does not conform in
all material respects with the disclosure requirements of Items 301, 402 and
503(d) of Regulation S-K; and (v) in addition to the audit referred to in their
opinions and the limited procedures referred to in clause (iii) above, they have
carried out certain specified procedures, not constituting an audit, with
respect to certain amounts, percentages and financial information which are
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus and which are specified by you, and have found such amounts,
percentages and financial information to be in agreement with the relevant
accounting, financial and other records of the Company and its subsidiaries
identified in such letter.
(e) At Closing Time, you shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a
letter dated as of such Closing Time to the effect that they reaffirm the
statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (d) of this
Section, except that the "specified date" referred to shall be a date not more
than three days prior to such Closing Time.
(f) At Closing Time, 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
Underwritten Securities as herein contemplated and related proceedings, 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
Underwritten Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and
substance to you and counsel for the Underwriters.
(g) In the event the Underwriters exercise their option provided in a
Terms Agreement as set forth in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any
portion of the Option Securities, the representations and warranties of the
Company 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 you
shall have received:
(1) A certificate, dated such Date of Delivery, of the
President and Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, or other authorized
officer(s) of the Company approved by you, in their capacities as such,
confirming that the certificate delivered at Closing Time pursuant to
Section 5(c) hereof remains true and correct as of such Date of
Delivery.
(2) The favorable opinions of Hunton & Williams, counsel for
the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the
Underwriters, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option
Securities and otherwise substantially to the same effect as the
opinions required by Sections 5(b)(1) and 5(b)(2) hereof.
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(3) The favorable opinion of Chapman and Cutler, counsel for
the Underwriters, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option
Securities and otherwise to the same effect as the opinion required by
Section 5(b)(3) hereof.
(4) A letter from Ernst & Young LLP, in form and substance
satisfactory to you and dated such Date of Delivery, substantially the
same in scope and substance as the letter furnished to you pursuant to
Section 5(e) hereof, except that the "specified date" in the letter
furnished pursuant to this Section 5(g)(4) shall be a date not more
than three days prior to such Date of Delivery. If any condition
specified in this Section shall not have been fulfilled when and as
required to be fulfilled, the applicable Terms Agreement may be
terminated by you by notice to the Company at any time at or prior to
the Closing Time, and such termination shall be without liability of
any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 hereof.
Section 6. Indemnification.
(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter
and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of
Section 15 of the 1933 Act as follows:
(1) 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 the
information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant
to Rule 430A(b) or Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations, if applicable,
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 in any preliminary
prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto)
or the omission, or alleged omission therefrom, 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;
(2) 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 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
referred to in subsection (1) above, or any such alleged untrue
statement or omission, if such settlement is effected with the written
consent of the Company; and
(3) against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred
(including, the fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by you),
reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against
any litigation, or any investigation or proceedings 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 (1) or (2) 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 reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any
Underwriter through you expressly for use in the Registration Statement
(or any amendment thereto) or any preliminary prospectus or the
Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto).
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(b) Each Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
the Company, its directors, 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, against any and all loss, liability, claim,
damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of
this Section, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or
alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or
any amendment thereto) or any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any
amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through you expressly
for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or any
preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement
thereto).
(c) 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
which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. An
indemnifying party may participate at its own expense in the defense of such
action. 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.
Section 7. Contribution.
In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in
circumstances in which the indemnity agreement provided for in Section 6 is for
any reason held to be unenforceable by the indemnified parties although
applicable in accordance with its terms, the Company and the Underwriters with
respect to the offering of the Underwritten Securities shall contribute to the
aggregate losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses of the nature
contemplated by said indemnity agreement incurred by the Company and one or more
of the Underwriters in respect of such offering, as incurred, in such
proportions that the Underwriters are responsible for that portion represented
by the percentage that the underwriting discount appearing on the cover page of
the applicable Prospectus Supplement in respect of such offering bears to the
initial public offering price appearing thereon and the Company is responsible
for the balance; provided, however, that no person guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be
entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation. 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 Underwritten Securities purchased by it
pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement and distributed to the public were
offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter
has otherwise been required to pay in respect of such losses, liabilities,
claims, damages and expenses. For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if
any, who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933
Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each
director of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration
Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning
of Section 15 of the 1933 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the
Company.
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Section 8. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive
Delivery.
All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this
Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement, or contained in certificates of
officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in
full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement, or
investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any controlling person,
or by or on behalf of the Company and shall survive delivery of and payment for
the Underwritten Securities to the Underwriters.
Section 9. Termination of Agreement.
(a) This Agreement (excluding the applicable Terms Agreement) may be
terminated for any reason at any time by the Company or by you upon the giving
of 30 days' written notice of such termination to the other party hereto;
provided that this Agreement may not be terminated prior to the Closing Time set
forth in any applicable Terms Agreement.
(b) You may also terminate the applicable Terms Agreement, by notice to
the Company, at any time at or prior to the Closing Time (i) if there has been,
since the date of such Terms Agreement or since the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Prospectus, any material adverse change in the
condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or
business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one
enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii)
if there has occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in
the United States or any outbreak of hostilities or other calamity or crisis or
escalation of any existing hostilities, the effect of which is such as to make
it, in your judgment, impracticable to market the Underwritten Securities or
enforce contracts for the sale of the Underwritten Securities, or (iii) if
trading in any of the securities of the Company has been suspended by the
Commission or the New York Stock Exchange, or if trading generally on either the
New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange has been suspended, or
minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for
prices for securities have been required, by either of said exchanges or by
order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, or if a banking
moratorium has been declared by Federal, New York or Virginia authorities, or
(iv) if Preferred Stock is being offered and the rating assigned by any
nationally recognized statistical rating organization to any preferred stock or
debt of the Company as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement shall have
been lowered since such date or if any such rating organization shall have
publicly announced that it has placed any preferred stock or debt of the Company
on what is commonly termed a "watch list" for possible downgrading. As used in
this Section 9(b), the term "Prospectus" means the Prospectus in the form first
used to confirm sales of the Underwritten Securities.
(c) In the event of any such termination, (x) the covenants set forth
in Section 3 with respect to any offering of Underwritten Securities shall
remain in effect so long as any Underwriter owns any such Underwritten
Securities purchased from the Company pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement
and (y) the covenant set forth in Section 3(h) hereof, the provisions of Section
4 hereof, the indemnity and contribution agreements set forth in Sections 6 and
7 hereof, and the provisions of Sections 8 and 13 hereof shall remain in effect.
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Section 10. Default by One or More of the Underwriters.
If one or more of the Underwriters shall fail at the Closing Time to
purchase the Underwritten Securities which it or they are obligated to purchase
under the applicable Terms Agreement (the "Defaulted Securities"), then you
shall have the right, within 48 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, you
shall not have completed such arrangements within such 48-hour period, then:
(a) if the total number of Defaulted Securities does not exceed 10% of
the total number of Underwritten Securities to be purchased pursuant to such
Terms Agreement, the non-defaulting Underwriters named in such Terms Agreement
shall be obligated 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
(b) if the total number of Defaulted Securities exceeds 10% of the
total number of Underwritten Securities to be purchased pursuant to such Terms
Agreement, the applicable Terms Agreement 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 under this Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement.
In the event of any such default which does not result in a termination
of the applicable Terms Agreement, either you or the Company shall have the
right to postpone the Closing Time for a period not exceeding seven days in
order to effect any required changes in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements.
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 c/o
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., One North Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri,
attention of Syndicate; and notices to the Company shall be directed to it at 10
South 6th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, attention of James Dolphin,
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Section 12. Parties.
This Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and be binding upon you and the Company and any Underwriter who
becomes a party to such Terms Agreement, and their respective successors.
Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement or the applicable Terms
Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or
corporation, other than those 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 such Terms Agreement or any provision herein
or therein contained. This Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement and all
conditions and provisions hereof and thereof are intended to be for the sole and
exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and thereto and their respective
successors and said controlling persons and officers and directors and their
heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or
corporation. No purchaser of Underwritten Securities from any Underwriter shall
be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.
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Section 13. Governing Law.
This Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to
agreements made and to be performed in said State.
Section 14. Counterparts.
This Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement may be executed in
one or more counterparts, and if executed in more than one counterpart the
executed counterparts shall constitute a single instrument.
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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
between you and the Company in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours,
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
By: __________________________________
Name:_________________________________
Title:________________________________
CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED, as
of the date first above
written:
A.G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC.
By:__________________________________
Name:________________________________
Title:_______________________________
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Exhibit A
_______ Shares
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(a Virginia corporation)
[Title of Securities]
TERMS AGREEMENT
Dated: _____________, 199__
To: United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.
10 South 6th Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attention: President and Chief Executive Officer
Dear Sirs:
We (the "Representative[s]") understand that United Dominion Realty
Trust, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell
the number of its [shares of common stock (the "Common Stock")] [shares of
preferred stock (the "Preferred Stock")] (such [Common Stock]) [Preferred Stock]
being collectively hereinafter [also] referred to as the "Underwritten
Securities"). Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by
reference herein, the underwriters named below (the "Underwriters") offer to
purchase, severally and not jointly, the respective numbers of [Initial
Underwritten Securities (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement referred to
below)] set forth below opposite their respective names, and a proportionate
share of Option Securities (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement referred to
below) to the extent any are purchased, at the purchase price set forth below.
Number of Shares of
Underwriter Initial Underwritten Securities
Total: $
The Underwritten Securities shall have the following terms:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION
[Common Stock] [Preferred Stock]
<S> <C>
Title of Securities:
Number of Shares:
[Current Ratings:]
[Dividend Rate:] $________ (_____%), Payable:
[Stated Value:]
[Liquidation Preference:]
[Ranking:]
Public Offering Price Per Share: $_____[, plus accumulated dividends, if any, from ______, 19__.]
Purchase Price Per Share: $_____[, plus accumulated dividends, if any, from ______, 19__.]
[Conversion Provisions:]
[Redemption Provisions:]
[Sinking Fund Requirements:]
Number of Option Securities, if any
that may be purchased by the
Underwriters:
Delayed Delivery Contracts: [authorized] [not authorized]
[Date of Delivery:
Minimum Contract:
Maximum Number of Shares:
Fee:]
Additional co-managers, if any:
Other terms:
Closing time, date and location:
</TABLE>
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All the provisions contained in the document attached as Annex A hereto
entitled "United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.- Common Stock and Preferred
Stock-Underwriting Agreement" are hereby incorporated by reference in their
entirety herein and shall be deemed to be a part of this Terms Agreement to the
same extent as if such provisions had been set forth in full herein. Terms
defined in such document are used herein as therein defined.
Please accept this offer no later than _________ o'clock P.M. (St.
Louis time) on by signing a copy of this Terms Agreement in the space set forth
below and returning the signed copy to us.
Very truly yours,
[NAME[S] OF REPRESENTATIVE]
By:____________________________
Acting on behalf of [itself]
themselves] and the other named
Underwriters.
Accepted:
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
By:___________________________________
Name:_________________________________
Title: _________________________________
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Exhibit B
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(a Virginia corporation)
[Title of Securities]
DELAYED DELIVERY CONTRACT
_____________, 19__
United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.
10 South 6th Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attention: President and Chief Executive Officer
Dear Sirs:
The undersigned hereby agrees to purchase from United Dominion Realty
Trust, Inc. (the "Company"), and the Company agrees to sell to the undersigned
on __________, 19__ (the "Delivery Date"), ____________ shares of the Company's
[insert title of security] (the "Securities"), offered by the Company's
Prospectus dated __________, 19__, as supplemented by its Prospectus Supplement
dated ___________, 19__, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, at a purchase
price of [$__________], on the Delivery Date, and on the further terms and
conditions set forth in this contract.
Payment for the Securities which the undersigned has agreed to purchase
on the Delivery Date shall be made to the Company or its order by certified or
official bank check in New York Clearing House funds at the office of , on the
Delivery Date, upon delivery to the undersigned of the Securities to be
purchased by the undersigned in definitive form and in such denominations and
registered in such names as the undersigned may designate by written or
telegraphic communication addressed to the Company not less than five full
business days prior to the Delivery Date.
The obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of and make
payment for Securities on the Delivery Date shall be subject only to the
conditions that (1) the purchase of Securities to be made by the undersigned
shall not on the Delivery Date be prohibited under the laws of the jurisdiction
to which the undersigned is subject and (2) the Company, on or before
__________, 199_, shall have sold to the Underwriters of the Securities (the
"Underwriters") such principal amount of the Securities as is to be sold to them
pursuant to the Terms Agreement dated __________, 199_ between the Company and
the Underwriters. The obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of and make
payment for Securities shall not be affected by the failure of any purchaser to
take delivery of and make payments for Securities pursuant to other contracts
similar to this contract. The undersigned represents and warrants to you that
its investment in the Securities is not, as of the date hereof, prohibited under
the laws of any jurisdiction to which the undersigned is subject and which
govern such investment.
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Promptly after completion of the sale to the Underwriters, the Company
will mail or deliver to the undersigned at its address set forth below notice to
such effect, accompanied by a copy of the opinion of counsel for the Company
delivered to the Underwriters in connection therewith.
By the execution hereof, the undersigned represents and warrants to the
Company that all necessary action for the due execution and delivery of this
contract and the payment for and purchase of the Securities has been taken by it
and no further authorization or approval of any governmental or other regulatory
authority is required for such execution, delivery, payment or purchase, and
that, upon acceptance hereof by the Company and mailing or delivery of a copy as
provided below, this contract will constitute a valid and binding agreement of
the undersigned in accordance with its terms.
This contract will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the
parties hereto and their respective successors, but will not be assignable by
either party hereto without the written consent of the other.
It is understood that the Company will not accept Delayed Delivery
Contracts for a number of Securities in excess of ________ and that the
acceptance of any Delayed Delivery Contract is in the Company's sole discretion
and, without limiting the foregoing, need not be on a first-come, first-served
basis. If this contract is acceptable to the Company, it is requested that the
Company sign the form of acceptance on a copy hereof and mail or deliver a
signed copy hereof to the undersigned at its address set forth below. This will
become a binding contract between the Company and the undersigned when such copy
is so mailed or delivered.
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This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York.
Yours very truly,
------------------------
(Name of Purchaser)
By:______________________
(Title)____________________
(Address)_________________
-------------------------
Accepted as of thedate first above written.
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
By:___________________________
(Title) ________________________
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PURCHASER-PLEASE COMPLETE AT TIME OF SIGNING
The name and telephone number of the representative of the Purchaser
with whom details of delivery on the Delivery Date may be discussed are as
follows: (Please print.)
Name: _____________________________
Telephone No. _______________________
(area code)
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(a Virginia corporation)
Common Stock and Preferred Stock
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
March 24, 1998
Wheat First Securities, Inc.
Riverfront Plaza, West Tower
901 East Byrd Street, 4th Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Dear Sirs:
United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the
"Company"), proposes to issue and sell shares of common stock, par value $1.00
per share (the "Common Stock"), and shares of preferred stock without par value
(the "Preferred Stock") from time to time, in one or more offerings on terms to
be determined at the time of sale. Each series of Preferred Stock may vary as to
the specific number of shares, title, stated value, liquidation preference,
issuance price, ranking, dividend rate or rates (or method of calculation),
dividend payment dates, any redemption or sinking fund requirements, any
conversion provisions and any other variable terms as set forth in the
applicable Articles of Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation
(each, the "Articles of Amendment") relating to such series of Preferred Stock.
As used herein, "Securities" shall mean the Common Stock and the Preferred
Stock. As used herein, "you" and "your," unless the context otherwise requires,
shall mean the parties to whom this Agreement is addressed together with the
other parties, if any, identified in the applicable Terms Agreement (as
hereinafter defined) as additional co-managers with respect to Underwritten
Securities (as hereinafter defined) purchased pursuant thereto.
Whenever the Company determines to make an offering of Securities
through you or through an underwriting syndicate managed by you, the Company
will enter into an agreement (the "Terms Agreement") providing for the sale of
such Securities (the "Underwritten Securities") to, and the purchase and
offering thereof by, you and such other underwriters, if any, selected by you as
have authorized you to enter into such Terms Agreement on their behalf (the
"Underwriters," which term shall include you whether acting alone in the sale of
the Underwritten Securities or as a member of an underwriting syndicate and any
Underwriter substituted pursuant to Section 10 hereof). The Terms Agreement
relating to the offering of Underwritten Securities shall specify the number of
Underwritten Securities of each class or series to be initially issued (the
"Initial Underwritten Securities"), the names of the Underwriters participating
in such offering (subject to substitution as provided in Section 10 hereof), the
number of Initial Underwritten Securities which each such Underwriter severally
agrees to purchase, the names of such of you or such other Underwriters acting
as co-managers, if any, in connection with such offering, the price at which the
Initial Underwritten Securities are to be purchased by the Underwriters from the
Company, the initial public offering price, the time, date and place of delivery
and payment, any delayed delivery arrangements and any other variable terms of
the Initial Underwritten Securities (including, but not limited to, current
ratings (in the case of Preferred Stock only), designations, liquidation
preferences, conversion provisions, redemption provisions and sinking fund
requirements). In addition, each Terms Agreement shall specify whether the
Company has agreed to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase additional
Underwritten Securities to cover over-allotments, if any, and the number of
Underwritten Securities subject to such option (the "Option Securities"). As
used herein, the term "Underwritten Securities" shall include the Initial
Underwritten Securities and all or any portion of the Option Securities agreed
to be purchased by the Underwriters as provided herein, if any. The Terms
Agreement, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, may
take the form of an exchange of any standard form of written telecommunication
between you and the Company. Each offering of Underwritten Securities through
you or through an underwriting syndicate managed by you will be governed by this
Agreement, as supplemented by the applicable Terms Agreement.
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The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") a registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-27221) for the
registration of the Securities (including the Underwritten Securities) and
certain of the Company's debt securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "1933 Act"), and the offering thereof from time to time in
accordance with Rule 415 of the rules and regulations of the Commission under
the 1933 Act (the "1933 Act Regulations"), and the Company has filed such
amendments thereto as may have been required prior to the execution of the
applicable Terms Agreement. Such registration statement (as amended, if
applicable) has been declared effective by the Commission. Such registration
statement (as amended, if applicable), on the one hand, and the prospectus
constituting a part thereof and each prospectus supplement relating to the
offering of Underwritten Securities provided to the Underwriters for use
(whether or not such prospectus supplement is required to be filed by the
Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations)(the "Prospectus
Supplement"), on the other hand, including in each case all documents
incorporated therein by reference and the information, if any, deemed to be a
part thereof pursuant to Rule 430A(b) or Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations,
as from time to time amended or supplemented pursuant to the 1933Act, the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), or otherwise, are
referred to herein as the "Registration Statement" and the "Prospectus,"
respectively; provided, however, that a Prospectus Supplement shall be deemed to
have supplemented the Prospectus only with respect to the offering of
Underwritten Securities to which it relates. All references in this Agreement to
financial statements and schedules and other information which is "contained,"
"included" or "stated" in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (and all
other references of like import) shall be deemed to mean and include all such
financial statements and schedules and other information which is or is deemed
to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus,
as the case may be; and all references in this Agreement to amendments or
supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be deemed to
mean and include, without limitation, any document filed under the1934 Act which
is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus, as the case may be. If the Company elects to rely on Rule 434
under the 1933 Act Regulations, all references to the Prospectus shall be deemed
to include, without limitation, the form of prospectus and the abbreviated term
sheet, taken together, provided to the Underwriters by the Company in reliance
on Rule 434 under the 1933 Act (the "Rule 434 Prospectus"). If the Company files
a registration statement to register a portion of the Securities and relies on
Rule 462(b) for such registration statement to become effective upon filing with
the Commission (the "Rule 462 Registration Statement"), then any reference to
"Registration Statement" herein shall be deemed to be to both the registration
statement referred to above (No. 333-27221) and the Rule 462 Registration
Statement, as each such registration statement may be amended pursuant to the
1933 Act.
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Section 1. Representations and Warranties.
(a) The Company represents and warrants to you, as of the date hereof,
and to you and each other Underwriter named in the applicable Terms Agreement,
as of the date thereof (such latter date being referred to herein as a
"Representation Date"), except as disclosed in the Prospectus or in written
materials provided to you by the Company, as follows:
(i) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus, at the time
the Registration Statement became effective, complied, and as of the
applicable Representation Date will comply, in all material respects
with the requirements of the 1933 Act and 1933 Act Regulations; the
Registration Statement, at the time the Registration Statement became
effective, did not and as of the applicable Representation Date will
not, contain 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 Prospectus, as of the date
hereof does not, and as of the applicable Representation Date and at
Closing Time (as hereinafter defined) will not, include 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 under which they were made, not misleading; provided,
however, that the representations and warranties in this subsection
shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity
with information furnished to the Company in writing by any Underwriter
through you expressly for use in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus.
(ii) The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
by reference in the Prospectus pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under
the 1933 Act, at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the
Commission, complied and 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"), and, when
read together with the other information in the Prospectus, at the time
the Registration Statement became effective and as of the applicable
Representation Date or Closing Time or during the period specified in
Section 3(f), did not and will not include an untrue statement of
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(iii) The accountants who certified the financial statements
and supporting schedules included in, or incorporated by reference
into, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus are independent
public accountants as required by the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act
Regulations.
(iv) The financial statements and supporting schedules
included in, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects
the financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the
dates indicated and the results of their operations for the periods
specified; except as otherwise stated in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus, said financial statements have been prepared in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a
consistent basis; and the supporting schedules included or incorporated
by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus present
fairly in all material respects the information required to be stated
therein.
(v) Since the respective dates as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, except as
otherwise stated therein, (A) there has been no material adverse change
or development involving a prospective material adverse change in or
affecting the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings,
business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its
subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not occurring in
the Ordinary course of business, (B) there have been no transactions or
acquisitions entered into by the Company or any of its subsidiaries
other than those arising in the ordinary course of business, and (C)
except for regular quarterly dividends on the Company's shares of
common stock, or dividends declared, paid or made in accordance with
the terms of any series of the Company's preferred stock, there has
been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by
the Company on any series of its common stock or preferred stock.
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(vi) The Company has been duly organized and is validly
existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, with full power and authority to own, lease
and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the
Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to transact business in
all jurisdictions in which the conduct of its business requires such
qualification except where the failure to so qualify would not have a
material adverse effect on the condition, financial or otherwise, or
the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company.
(vii) Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly organized
and is validly existing as a corporation, limited liability company,
limited partnership, business trust or real estate investment trust in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation
or organization, with power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus
except where the failure to so be in good standing would not have a
material adverse effect on the condition, financial or otherwise, or
the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and
its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise; each such subsidiary is
duly qualified to transact business in all jurisdictions in which the
conduct of its business requires such qualification, or in which the
failure to qualify would have a materially adverse effect upon the
business of such subsidiary; all of the issued and outstanding capital
stock of each such corporate subsidiary and all of the issued and
outstanding shares of beneficial interest of each such real estate
investment trust subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly
issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by the Company
free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien,
encumbrance, claim or equity; and the Company and one such corporate
subsidiary are the only members of the Company's limited liability
company or limited partnership subsidiaries and own the entire
membership or general partnership interest in each such subsidiary free
and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien,
encumbrance, claim or equity.
(viii) If applicable, the authorized, issued and outstanding
shares of common and preferred stock of the Company are as set forth in
the Prospectus under "Capitalization" (except for subsequent issuances,
if any, pursuant to reservations, agreements or the conversion of
convertible securities referred to in the Registration Statement
including, without limitation, the exercise or grant of stock options
pursuant to the Company's stock option plan or the issuance of shares
pursuant to the Company's dividend reinvestment plan, stock purchase
and loan plan or employees' stock purchase plan); and such shares of
common stock and preferred stock of the Company have been duly
authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and
are not subject to preemptive or other similar rights.
(ix) The applicable Underwritten Securities have been duly
authorized by the Company for issuance and sale pursuant to this
Agreement and, when issued and delivered pursuant to this Agreement
against payment of the consideration therefor specified in the
applicable Terms Agreement or any Delayed Delivery Contract (as
hereinafter defined), such Underwritten Securities will be duly and
validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the Preferred Stock, if
applicable, conforms to the provisions of the Articles of Amendment;
such Underwritten Securities conform in all material respects to all
statements relating thereto contained in the Prospectus; and the
issuance of such Underwritten Securities is not subject to preemptive
or other similar rights.
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(x) If applicable, the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of any of the Preferred Stock will have been duly and
validly authorized and reserved for issuance upon such conversion or
exercise by all necessary corporate action and such shares, when issued
upon such conversion or exercise, will be duly and validly issued,
fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such shares upon
such conversion or exercise will not be subject to preemptive or other
similar rights; the Common Stock so issuable conforms in all material
respects to all statements relating thereto contained in the
Prospectus.
(xi) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in
violation of its Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws or in default in
the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or
condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan
agreement, note, lease (other than as disclosed in the Prospectus) or
other 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 property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is
subject and which default is of material significance in respect of the
business or financial condition of the Company and its subsidiaries
considered as one enterprise; and the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement and
the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and therein
and compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder and
thereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action
on the part of the Company, and will not conflict with or constitute a
breach of, or default under, or result in the creation or imposition of
any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to any contract, indenture,
mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other 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 property or assets of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is subject, or result in any violation of the
Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of the Company or any law,
administrative regulation or administrative or court decree.
(xii) With respect to all tax periods regarding which the
Internal Revenue Service is or will be entitled to assert any claim,
the Company has met the requirements for qualification as a real estate
investment trust under Sections 856 through 860 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), and the Company's present and
contemplated operations, assets and income continue to meet such
requirements.
(xiii) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the
offering and sale of the underwritten Securities, will not be an
"investment company" or an entity "controlled" by an "investment
company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the "1940 Act").
(xiv) The conditions for use of registration statements on
Form S-3 set forth in the General Instructions on Form S-3 have been
satisfied and the Company is entitled to use such form for the
transaction contemplated herein and in any applicable Terms Agreement.
(xv) There is no action, suit or proceeding before or by any
court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending,
or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or
any of its subsidiaries which is required to be disclosed in the
Prospectus (other than as disclosed therein) or which might result in
any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise,
or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the
Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or which
might materially and adversely affect the properties or assets thereof
or which might materially and adversely affect the consummation of this
Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement or the transactions
contemplated herein and therein; all pending legal or governmental
proceedings to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party
or of which any of their respective property is the subject which are
not described in the Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation
incidental to the business, are, considered in the aggregate, not
material; and there are no contracts or documents of the Company or any
of its subsidiaries which would be required to be filed as exhibits to
the Registration Statement by the 1933 Act or by the 1933 Act
Regulations which have not been filed as exhibits to the Registration
Statement.
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(xvi) No authorization, approval or consent of any
governmental authority or agency is necessary in connection with the
consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement, except such as may be
required under the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations or state
securities or Blue Sky laws.
(xvii) The Company has full right, power and authority to
enter into this Agreement, the applicable Terms Agreement and the
Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, and this Agreement has been, and as
of the applicable Representation Date, the applicable Terms Agreement
and the delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, will have been, duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(xviii) The Company and its subsidiaries have good and
marketable title to, or valid and enforceable leasehold estates in, all
items of real and personal property referred to in the Prospectus as
owned or leased by them, in each case free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances, claims, security interests and defects, other than those
referred to in the Prospectus or which are not material in amount. Each
lease of real property by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as
lessor requiring annual lease payments in excess of $100,000 is the
legal, valid and binding obligation of the lessee in accordance with
its terms (except that the remedy of specific performance and
injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to
equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any
proceeding therefor may be brought and to the Bankruptcy Act) and the
rents which at present have remained due and unpaid for more than 30
days are not payable under leases such that, were no further rental
payments to be received under such leases, the financial condition or
results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries would be
materially adversely affected thereby. The Company has no reason to
believe that the lessee under any lease (excluding leases for which
rent payments due for the remainder of such lease are less than
$500,000) calling for annual lease payments in excess of $500,000 is
not financially capable of performing its obligations thereunder.
(xix) The Company has filed all Federal, local and foreign
income tax returns which have been required to be filed and has paid
all taxes indicated by said returns and all assessments received by it
to the extent that such taxes have become due and are not being
contested in good faith.
(xx) The Company and each of its subsidiaries hold all
material licenses, certificates and permits from governmental
authorities which are necessary to the conduct of their respective
businesses; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
infringed any patents, patent rights, trade names, trademarks or
copyrights, which infringement is material to the business of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries.
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(xxi) The Company has no knowledge of (a) the unlawful
presence of any hazardous substances, hazardous materials, toxic
substances or waste materials (collectively, "Hazardous Materials") on
any of the properties owned by it or any of its subsidiaries, or of (b)
any unlawful spills, releases, discharges or disposal of Hazardous
Materials that have occurred or are presently occurring off such
properties as a result of any construction on or operation and use of
such properties which presence or occurrence would materially adversely
affect the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business
affairs or business prospects of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries. In connection with the construction on or operation and
use of the properties owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries,
the Company represents that it has no knowledge of any material failure
to comply with all applicable local, state and federal environmental
laws, regulations, ordinances and administrative and judicial orders
relating to the generation, recycling, reuse, sale, storage, handling,
transport and disposal of any Hazardous Materials.
(b) Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered
to you or to counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the
Underwritten Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the
Company to each Underwriter participating in such offering as to the matters
covered thereby on the date of such certificate and, unless subsequently amended
or supplemented, at the applicable Representation Date subsequent thereto.
Section 2. Purchase and Sale.
(a) The several commitments of the Underwriters to purchase the
Underwritten Securities pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement shall be
deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties
herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set
forth.
(b) In addition, on the basis of the representations and warranties
herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the
Company may grant, if so provided in the applicable Terms Agreement relating to
the Initial Underwritten Securities, an option to the Underwriters named in such
Terms Agreement, severally and not jointly, to purchase up to the number of
Option Securities set forth therein at the same price per Option Security as is
applicable to the Initial Underwritten Securities less an amount equal to any
dividend paid by the Company and payable on the Initial Underwritten Securities
and not payable on such Option Securities. Such option, if granted, will expire
30 days (or such lesser number of days as may be specified in the applicable
Terms Agreement) after the Representation Date relating to the Initial
Underwritten Securities, and may be exercised in whole or in part from time to
time only for the purpose of covering over-allotments which may be made in
connection with the offering and distribution of the Initial Underwritten
Securities upon notice by you 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, date and place of delivery (a "Date of Delivery") shall be determined
by you, but shall not be later than seven full business days nor earlier than
two full business days after the exercise of said option, nor in any event prior
to Closing Time, unless otherwise agreed upon by you and the Company. 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 Underwritten Securities each such Underwriter has
severally agreed to purchase as set forth in the applicable Terms Agreement
bears to the total number of Initial Underwritten Securities (except as
otherwise provided in the applicable Terms Agreement), subject to such
adjustments as you in your discretion shall make to eliminate any sales or
purchases of fractional Underwritten Securities.
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(c) Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of, the
Underwritten Securities to be purchased by the Underwriters shall be made at the
office of Wheat First Securities, Inc., Riverfront Plaza, 901 East Byrd Street,
4th Floor, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or at such other place as shall be agreed
upon by you and the Company, at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the third business
day (unless postponed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 herein)
following the date of the applicable Terms Agreement or, if pricing takes place
after 4:30 P.M., New York time, on the date of the applicable Terms Agreement,
on the fourth business day (unless postponed in accordance with the provisions
of Section 10) following the date of the applicable Terms Agreement or at such
other time as shall be agreed upon by you and the Company (each such time and
date of payment and delivery being referred to herein as the "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 representing, such Option Securities, shall be made at the
above-mentioned offices of Wheat First Securities, Inc., or at such other place
as shall be agreed upon by you and the Company on each Date of Delivery as
specified in the notice from you to the Company. Unless otherwise specified in
the applicable Terms Agreement, payment shall be made to the Company by
certified or official bank check or checks in New York Clearing House funds
payable to the order of the Company against delivery to you for the respective
accounts of the Underwriters of the certificates for the Underwritten Securities
to be purchased by them. The Underwritten Securities shall be in such authorized
denominations and registered in such names as you may request in writing at
least one business day prior to the Closing Time or Date of Delivery, as the
case may be. The Underwritten Securities, which may be in temporary form, will
be made available for examination and packaging by you on or before 3:00 P.M.,
New York time, on the first business day prior to the Closing Time or the Date
of Delivery, as the case may be.
If authorized by the applicable Terms Agreement, the Underwriters named
therein may solicit offers to purchase Underwritten Securities from the Company
pursuant to delayed delivery contracts ("Delayed Delivery Contracts")
substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto with such changes therein as the
Company may approve. As compensation for arranging Delayed Delivery Contracts,
the Company will pay to you at Closing Time, for the respective accounts of the
Underwriters, a fee specified in the applicable Terms Agreement for each of the
Underwritten Securities for which Delayed Delivery Contracts are made at the
Closing Time as is specified in the applicable Terms Agreement. Any Delayed
Delivery Contracts are to be with institutional investors of the types described
in the Prospectus. At the Closing Time, the Company will enter into Delayed
Delivery Contracts (for not less than the minimum number of Underwritten
Securities per Delayed Delivery Contract specified in the applicable Terms
Agreement) with all purchasers proposed by the Underwriters and previously
approved by the Company as provided below, but not for an aggregate number of
Underwritten Securities in excess of that specified in the applicable Terms
Agreement. The Underwriters will not have any responsibility for the validity or
performance of Delayed Delivery Contracts.
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You shall submit to the Company, at least two business days prior to
the Closing Time, the names of any institutional investors with which it is
proposed that the Company will enter into Delayed Delivery Contracts and the
number of Underwritten Securities to be purchased by each of them, and the
Company will advise you, at least one business day prior to the Closing Time, of
the names of the institutions with which the making of Delayed Delivery
Contracts is approved by the Company and the number of Underwritten Securities
to be covered by each such Delayed Delivery Contract.
The number of Underwritten Securities agreed to be purchased by the
several Underwriters pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement shall be reduced
by the number of Underwritten Securities covered by Delayed Delivery Contracts,
as to each Underwriter as set forth in a written notice delivered by you to the
Company; provided, however, that the total number of Underwritten Securities to
be purchased by all Underwriters shall be the total number of Underwritten
Securities covered by the applicable Terms Agreement, less the number of
Underwritten Securities covered by Delayed Delivery Contracts.
Section 3. Covenants of the Company.
The Company covenants with you, and with each Underwriter participating
in the offering of Underwritten Securities, as follows:
(a) If the Company does not elect to rely on Rule 434 under the 1933
Act Regulations, immediately following the execution of the applicable Terms
Agreement, the Company will prepare a Prospectus Supplement setting forth the
number of Underwritten Securities covered thereby and their terms not otherwise
specified in the Prospectus pursuant to which the Underwritten Securities are
being issued, the names of the Underwriters participating in the offering and
the number of Underwritten Securities which each severally has agreed to
purchase, the names of the Underwriters acting as co-managers in connection with
the offering, the price at which the Underwritten Securities are to be purchased
by the Underwriters from the Company, the initial public offering price, if any,
the selling concession and reallowance, if any, any delayed delivery
arrangements, and such other information as you and the Company deem appropriate
in connection with the offering of the Underwritten Securities; and the Company
will promptly transmit copies of the Prospectus Supplement to the Commission for
filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations and will furnish to
the Underwriters named therein as many copies of the Prospectus (including such
Prospectus Supplement) as you shall reasonably request. If the Company elects to
rely on Rule 434 under the 1933 Act Regulations, immediately following the
execution of the applicable Terms Agreement, the Company will prepare an
abbreviated term sheet that complies with the requirements of Rule 434 under the
1933 Act Regulations and will provide the Underwriters with copies of the form
of Rule 434 Prospectus, in such number as you shall reasonably request, and, if
necessary, promptly file or transmit for filing with the Commission the form of
Prospectus complying with Rule 434(c)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations in
accordance with Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations.
(b) The Company will notify you immediately, and confirm such notice in
writing, of (i) the effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration
Statement, (ii) the transmittal to the Commission for filing of any Prospectus
Supplement or other supplement or amendment to the Prospectus to be filed
pursuant to the 1934 Act, (iii) the receipt of any comments from the Commission,
(iv) any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration
Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for additional
information, and (v) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending
the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any
proceedings for that purpose; and the Company will make every reasonable effort
to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and, if any stop order is issued,
to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.
(c) At any time when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under
the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act in connection with sales of the Underwritten
Securities, the Company will give you notice of its intention to file or prepare
any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to
the Prospectus, whether pursuant to the 1933 Act, 1934 Act or otherwise
(including any revised prospectus which the Company proposes for use by the
Underwriters in connection with an offering of Underwritten Securities which
differs from the Prospectus on file at the Commission at the time the
Registration Statement first becomes effective, whether or not such revised
prospectus is required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act
Regulations, or any abbreviated term sheet prepared in reliance on Rule 434 of
the 1933 Act Regulations), and will furnish you with copies of any such
amendment or supplement or other documents proposed to be used or filed a
reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing and, unless required by
law, will not file or use any such amendment or supplement or other documents in
a form to which you or counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object.
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(d) The Company will deliver to each Underwriter a signed copy of the
Registration Statement as originally filed and of each amendment thereto
(including exhibits filed therewith and documents incorporated by reference
therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act) as you reasonably
request and will also deliver to each Underwriter a conformed copy of the
Registration Statement as originally filed and of each amendment thereto
(including documents incorporated by reference but without exhibits).
(e) The Company will furnish to each Underwriter, from time to time
during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933
Act or the 1934 Act in connection with sales of the Underwritten Securities,
such number of copies of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as such
Underwriter may reasonably request for the purposes contemplated by the 1933
Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Regulations.
(f) If at any time when the Prospectus is required to be delivered
under the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act in connection with sales of the Underwritten
Securities any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is
necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, to amend or
supplement the Prospectus in order that the Prospectus will not include an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any 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 if it
shall be necessary, in the opinion of such counsel, at any such time to amend or
supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to comply with
the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations, then the Company
will promptly prepare and file with the Commission such amendment or supplement,
whether by filing documents pursuant to the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or otherwise,
as may be necessary to correct such untrue statement or omission or to make the
Registration Statement and Prospectus comply with such requirements.
(g) If applicable, the Company will endeavor, in cooperation with the
Underwriters, to qualify the Underwritten Securities and the Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock, if any, for offering and sale
under the applicable securities laws and real estate syndication laws of such
states and other jurisdictions of the United States as you may designate; and in
each jurisdiction in which the Underwritten Securities and the Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock, if any, have been so qualified,
the Company will file such statements and reports as may be required by the laws
of such jurisdiction to continue such qualification in effect for so long as may
be required for the distribution of the Underwritten Securities and the Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock, if any; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be obligated to qualify as a foreign
corporation in any jurisdiction where it is not so qualified.
(h) With respect to each sale of Underwritten Securities, the Company
will make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable,
but not later than 90 days after the close of the period covered thereby, an
earnings statement (in form complying with the provisions of Rule 158 of the
1933 Act Regulations) covering a twelve month period beginning not later than
the first day of the Company's fiscal quarter next following the "effective
date" (as defined in such Rule 158) of the Registration Statement.
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(i) The Company will continue to elect to qualify as a "real estate
investment trust" under the Code and will use its best efforts to continue to
meet the requirements to qualify as a "real estate investment trust."
(j) The Company, during the period when the Prospectus is required to
be delivered under the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act in connection with sales of the
Underwritten Securities, will file promptly all documents required to be filed
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15 of the 1934 Act within the
time periods prescribed by the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations.
(k) If the Preferred Stock is convertible into Common Stock, the
Company will reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights
or other similar rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the
purpose of enabling the Company to satisfy any obligations to issue such shares
upon conversion of the Preferred Stock.
(l) If the Preferred Stock is convertible into Common Stock, the
Company will use its best efforts to list the shares of Common Stock issuable
upon conversion of the Preferred Stock on the New York Stock Exchange or such
other national exchange on which the Company's Common Stock is then listed.
(m) The Company will use its best efforts to list the Underwritten
Securities on the New York Stock Exchange.
(n) The Company will use the net proceeds received by it from the sale
of the Underwritten Securities in the manner specified in the Prospectus under
the caption "Use of Proceeds."
Section 4. Payment of Expenses.
The Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its
obligations under this Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement, including
(i) the printing and filing of the Registration Statement as originally filed
and of each amendment thereto, (ii) the cost of printing, filing and
distributing to the Underwriters copies of this Agreement and the applicable
Terms Agreement, (iii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the
Underwritten Securities to the Underwriters, (iv) the fees and disbursements of
the Company's counsel and accountants, (v) if applicable, the qualification of
the Underwritten Securities and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the
Preferred Stock, if any, under securities laws and real estate syndication laws
in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(g), including filing fees and the
fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith
and in connection with the preparation of the Blue Sky Survey, (vi) the printing
and delivery to the Underwriters of copies of the Registration Statement as
originally filed and of each amendment thereto, and of the Prospectus and any
amendments or supplements thereto, including each abbreviated term sheet
delivered by the Company pursuant to Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations, (vii)
the cost of reproducing and distributing to the Underwriters copies of the Blue
Sky Survey, (viii) any fees charged by nationally recognized statistical rating
organizations for the rating of the Underwritten Securities, (ix) the fees and
expenses, if any, incurred with respect to the listing of the Underwritten
Securities or the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock,
if any, on any national securities exchange, and (x) the fees and expenses, if
any, incurred with respect to any filing with the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc.
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If the applicable Terms Agreement is canceled or terminated by you in
accordance with the provisions of Section 5 or Section 9(b)(i), the Company
shall reimburse the Underwriters named in such Terms Agreement for all of their
out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of
counsel for the Underwriters.
Section 5. Conditions of Underwriters' Obligations.
The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase
Underwritten Securities pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement are subject
to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein
contained, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company's officers made in
any certificate pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the
Company of all of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the
following further conditions:
(a) At Closing Time, (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of
the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the 1933 Act or
proceedings therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission and (ii) if
Preferred Stock is being offered, the rating assigned by any nationally
recognized statistical rating organization to any preferred stock of the Company
as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement shall not have been lowered
since such date nor shall any such rating organization have publicly announced
that it has placed the Company on what is commonly termed a "watch list" for
possible downgrading.
(b) At Closing Time, you shall have received:
(1) The favorable opinion, dated as of Closing Time, of Hunton
& Williams, counsel for the Company, in form and substance satisfactory
to counsel for the Underwriters, to the effect that:
(i) The Company has been duly organized and is
validly existing as a corporation and in good standing under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with corporate power
and authority to own its properties and conduct its business
as described in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented.
(ii) The Company is duly qualified to transact
business in all jurisdictions in which the conduct of its
business requires such qualification, or in which the failure
to qualify would have a materially adverse effect upon the
business of the Company.
(iii) Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly
organized and is validly existing as a corporation, limited
liability company, limited partnership or real estate
investment trust in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with power
and authority to own its properties and conduct its business
as described in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented
except where the failure to so be in good standing would not
have a material adverse effect on the condition, financial or
otherwise, or the earnings, business affairs or business
prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as
one enterprise; each such subsidiary is duly qualified to
transact business in all jurisdictions in which the conduct of
its business requires such qualification, or in which the
failure to qualify would have a materially adverse effect upon
the business of such subsidiary; all of the issued and
outstanding capital stock of each such corporate subsidiary
and all of the issued and outstanding shares of beneficial
interest of each such real estate investment trust subsidiary
have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid
and non-assessable and are owned by the Company free and clear
of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance,
claim or equity; and the company one such corporate subsidiary
are the only members of the Company's limited liability
company or limited partnership subsidiaries and own the entire
membership or general partnership interest in each such
subsidiary free and clear of any security interest, mortgage,
pledge, lien, encumbrance, claim or equity.
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(iv) The Company has authorized and outstanding
capital stock as set forth in the Prospectus under
"Capitalization" (except for subsequent issuances, if any,
pursuant to reservations, agreements or the conversion of
convertible securities referred to in the Registration
Statement including, without limitation, the exercise or grant
of stock options pursuant to the Company's stock option plan
or the issuance of shares pursuant to the Company's dividend
reinvestment plan, stock purchase and loan plan or employees'
stock purchase plan); the authorized capital stock of the
Company has been duly authorized; and the outstanding shares
of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and
validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and are
not subject to preemptive or other similar rights arising by
operation of law or, to the best of such counsel's knowledge,
otherwise.
(v) The applicable Underwritten Securities have been
duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action
and, when issued and delivered pursuant to this Agreement
against payment of the consideration therefor specified in the
applicable Terms Agreement or the Delayed Delivery Contracts,
the applicable Underwritten Securities will be validly issued,
fully paid and non-assessable; the Underwritten Securities are
not subject to preemptive or other similar rights arising by
operation of law or, to the best of such counsel's knowledge,
otherwise; and the Preferred Stock, if applicable, conforms to
the provisions of the Articles of Amendment.
(vi) If applicable, the shares of Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of any of the Preferred Stock have
been duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance
upon such conversion or exercise by all necessary corporate
action and such shares, when issued upon such conversion or
exercise, will be duly and validly issued and will be fully
paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of such shares upon
such conversion or exercise will not be subject to preemptive
or other similar rights arising by operation of law or, to the
best of such counsel's knowledge, otherwise.
(vii) Each of this Agreement, the applicable Terms
Agreement and the Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, has been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(viii) The Registration Statement is effective under
the 1933 Act and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, no
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings
therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission.
(ix) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
excluding the documents incorporated by reference therein, as
of their respective effective or issue dates, comply as to
form in all material respects with the requirements of the
1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations; it being understood,
however, that no opinion need be rendered with respect to the
financial statements, schedules and other financial and
statistical data included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus. If applicable, the
Rule 434 Prospectus conforms in all material aspects to the
requirements of Rule 434 under the 1933 Act Regulations.
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(x) Each document filed pursuant to the 1934 Act
(other than the financial statements, schedules and other
financial and statistical data included therein, as to which
no opinion need be rendered) and incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference in the Prospectus complied when so
filed (or as when amended prior to the Representation Date) as
to form in all material respects with the 1934 Act and the
1934 Act Regulations.
(xi) If applicable, the relative rights, preferences,
interests and powers of the Preferred Stock are as set forth
in the Articles of Amendment relating thereto, and all such
provisions are valid under applicable Virginia law; and the
form of certificate used to evidence the Preferred Stock is in
due and proper form under applicable Virginia law, and
complies in all material respects with all applicable
statutory requirements.
(xii) The Underwritten Securities and, if applicable,
the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred
Stock conform in all material respects to the statements
relating thereto contained in the Prospectus.
(xiii) To the best of such counsel's knowledge and
information, there are no legal or governmental proceedings
pending or threatened which are required to be disclosed in
the Prospectus, other than those disclosed therein, and all
pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company
or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of the
property of the Company or its subsidiaries is the subject
which are not described in the Prospectus, including ordinary
routine litigation incidental to the business, are, considered
in the aggregate, not material to the business of the Company
and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise.
(xiv) To the best of such counsel's knowledge and
information, there are no contracts, indentures, mortgages,
loan agreements, notes, leases or other instruments required
to be described or referred to in the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the
Registration Statement other than those described or referred
to therein or filed as exhibits thereto, the descriptions
thereof or references thereto are correct, and, to the best of
such counsel's knowledge and information, no default exists in
the due performance or observance of any obligation,
agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract,
indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other
instrument so described, referred to or filed which would have
a material adverse effect on the condition, financial or
otherwise, or on the earnings, business affairs or business
prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as
one enterprise.
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(xv) No authorization, approval or consent of any
court or governmental authority or agency is required that has
not been obtained in connection with the consummation by the
Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
the applicable Terms Agreement, except such as may be required
under the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act and state securities laws or
real estate syndication laws.
(xvi) To the best of such counsel's knowledge and
information, the execution and delivery of this Agreement and
the applicable Terms Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated herein and therein and compliance by
the Company with its obligations hereunder and thereunder will
not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under
or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or
encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any
of its subsidiaries pursuant to any contract, indenture,
mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument to
which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by
which they may be bound or to which any of the property or
assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject,
nor will such action result in violation of the provisions of
the Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of the Company or any
law, administrative regulation or court decree.
(xvii) The Company is not required to be registered
under the 1940 Act.
(xviii) The statements under the caption "Description
of Capital Stock" in the Prospectus, insofar as such
statements constitute a summary of documents referred to
therein or matters of law, are accurate summaries and fairly
and correctly present the information called for with respect
to such documents and matters.
(2) The favorable opinion, dated as of Closing Time, of Hunton
& Williams, counsel for the Company, in form and substance satisfactory
to counsel for the Underwriters, to the effect that the Company has
qualified to be taxed as a real estate investment trust pursuant to
Sections 856 through 860 of the Code for its most recently ended fiscal
year and for the four fiscal years immediately preceding such year, and
the Company's organization and contemplated method of operation are
such as to enable it to continue to so qualify for its current fiscal
year.
(3) The favorable opinion, dated as of the Closing Time, of
Chapman and Cutler, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to the
due organization of the Company and the matters set forth in (v) to
(ix), inclusive, and (xii), (xv) and (xviii) of subsection (b)(1) of
this Section. In rendering their opinion, Chapman and Cutler may rely
as to matters of Virginia law upon the opinion of Hunton & Williams.
(4) In giving their opinions required by subsections (b)(1)
and (b)(3), respectively, of this Section, Hunton & Williams and
Chapman and Cutler shall each additionally state that nothing has come
to their attention that would lead them to believe that the
Registration Statement or any amendment thereto (excluding the
financial statements and financial schedules included or incorporated
by reference therein, as to which such counsel need express no belief),
at the time it became effective or at the time an Annual Report on Form
10-K was filed by the Company with the Commission (whichever is later),
or at the Representation Date, contained an untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or
that the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (excluding
the financial statements and financial schedules included or
incorporated by reference therein, as to which such counsel need
express no belief), at the Representation Date or at Closing Time,
included or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
or omits 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.
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(c) At Closing Time, there shall not have been, since the date of the
applicable Terms Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information
is given in the Prospectus, any material adverse change in the condition,
financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business
prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise,
whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business; and you shall have
received a certificate of the President and Chief Executive Officer and the
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, or other
authorized officer(s) of the Company approved by you, dated as of such Closing
Time, to the effect that (i) there has been no such material adverse change and
(ii) the representations and warranties in Section 1 are true and correct with
the same force and effect as though such Closing Time were a Representation
Date. As used in this Section 5(c), the term "Prospectus" means the Prospectus
in the form first used to confirm sales of the Underwritten Securities.
(d) At the time of execution of the applicable Terms Agreement, you
shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter dated such date, in form and
substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that (i) they are independent
accountants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning
of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and the applicable published rules and
regulations thereunder; (ii) it is their opinion that the consolidated financial
statements and supporting schedules of the Company and its subsidiaries included
or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
and covered by their opinions therein comply in form in all material respects
with the applicable accounting requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and
the related published rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) based upon limited
procedures set forth in detail in such letter (which shall include, without
limitation, the procedures specified by the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants for a review of interim financial information as described in
SAS No. 71, Interim Financial Information, with respect to the unaudited
condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement), nothing
came to their attention that caused them to believe that (A) any material
modifications should be made to the unaudited financial statements and financial
statement schedules of the Company and its subsidiaries included or incorporated
by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus for them to be in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, (B) the unaudited
financial statements and financial statement schedules of the Company included
or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus do
not comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting
requirements of the 1934 Act and the related published rules and regulations
thereunder, or (C) at a specified date not more than three days prior to the
date of the applicable Terms Agreement, there has been any change in the capital
stock of the Company or in the notes payable or mortgage notes payable of the
Company or any decrease in the total assets of the Company, as compared with the
amounts shown in the most recent consolidated balance sheet included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or,
during the period from the date of the most recent consolidated statement of
operations included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus to a specified date not more than three days prior to the
date of the applicable Terms Agreement, there were any decreases, as compared
with the corresponding period in the preceding year, in rental income or in the
total or per share amounts of net income or income before gains (losses) on
investments and extraordinary items of the Company, except in all instances for
changes, increases or decreases which the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus disclose have occurred or may occur; (iv) they have compared the
information in the Prospectus under selected captions with the disclosure
requirements of Regulation S-K and on the basis of limited procedures specified
in such letter nothing came to their attention as a result of the foregoing
procedures that caused them to believe that this information does not conform in
all material respects with the disclosure requirements of Items 301, 402 and
503(d) of Regulation S-K; and (v) in addition to the audit referred to in their
opinions and the limited procedures referred to in clause (iii) above, they have
carried out certain specified procedures, not constituting an audit, with
respect to certain amounts, percentages and financial information which are
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus and which are specified by you, and have found such amounts,
percentages and financial information to be in agreement with the relevant
accounting, financial and other records of the Company and its subsidiaries
identified in such letter.
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(e) At Closing Time, you shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a
letter dated as of such Closing Time to the effect that they reaffirm the
statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (d) of this
Section, except that the "specified date" referred to shall be a date not more
than three days prior to such Closing Time.
(f) At Closing Time, 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
Underwritten Securities as herein contemplated and related proceedings, 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
Underwritten Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and
substance to you and counsel for the Underwriters.
(g) In the event the Underwriters exercise their option provided in a
Terms Agreement as set forth in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any
portion of the Option Securities, the representations and warranties of the
Company 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 you
shall have received:
(1) A certificate, dated such Date of Delivery, of the
President and Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, or other authorized
officer(s) of the Company approved by you, in their capacities as such,
confirming that the certificate delivered at Closing Time pursuant to
Section 5(c) hereof remains true and correct as of such Date of
Delivery.
(2) The favorable opinions of Hunton & Williams, counsel for
the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the
Underwriters, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option
Securities and otherwise substantially to the same effect as the
opinions required by Sections 5(b)(1) and 5(b)(2) hereof.
(3) The favorable opinion of Chapman and Cutler, counsel for
the Underwriters, dated such Date of Delivery, relating to the Option
Securities and otherwise to the same effect as the opinion required by
Section 5(b)(3) hereof.
(4) A letter from Ernst & Young LLP, in form and substance
satisfactory to you and dated such Date of Delivery, substantially the
same in scope and substance as the letter furnished to you pursuant to
Section 5(e) hereof, except that the "specified date" in the letter
furnished pursuant to this Section 5(g)(4) shall be a date not more
than three days prior to such Date of Delivery. If any condition
specified in this Section shall not have been fulfilled when and as
required to be fulfilled, the applicable Terms Agreement may be
terminated by you by notice to the Company at any time at or prior to
the Closing Time, and such termination shall be without liability of
any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 hereof.
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Section 6. Indemnification.
(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter
and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of
Section 15 of the 1933 Act as follows:
(1) 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 the
information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant
to Rule 430A(b) or Rule 434 of the 1933 Act Regulations, if applicable,
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 in any preliminary
prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto)
or the omission, or alleged omission therefrom, 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;
(2) 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 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
referred to in subsection (1) above, or any such alleged untrue
statement or omission, if such settlement is effected with the written
consent of the Company; and
(3) against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred
(including, the fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by you),
reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against
any litigation, or any investigation or proceedings 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 (1) or (2) 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 reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any
Underwriter through you expressly for use in the Registration Statement
(or any amendment thereto) or any preliminary prospectus or the
Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto).
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(b) Each Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
the Company, its directors, 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, against any and all loss, liability, claim,
damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of
this Section, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or
alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or
any amendment thereto) or any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any
amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through you expressly
for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or any
preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement
thereto).
(c) 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
which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. An
indemnifying party may participate at its own expense in the defense of such
action. 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.
Section 7. Contribution.
In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in
circumstances in which the indemnity agreement provided for in Section 6 is for
any reason held to be unenforceable by the indemnified parties although
applicable in accordance with its terms, the Company and the Underwriters with
respect to the offering of the Underwritten Securities shall contribute to the
aggregate losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses of the nature
contemplated by said indemnity agreement incurred by the Company and one or more
of the Underwriters in respect of such offering, as incurred, in such
proportions that the Underwriters are responsible for that portion represented
by the percentage that the underwriting discount appearing on the cover page of
the applicable Prospectus Supplement in respect of such offering bears to the
initial public offering price appearing thereon and the Company is responsible
for the balance; provided, however, that no person guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be
entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation. 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 Underwritten Securities purchased by it
pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement and distributed to the public were
offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter
has otherwise been required to pay in respect of such losses, liabilities,
claims, damages and expenses. For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if
any, who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933
Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each
director of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration
Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning
of Section 15 of the 1933 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the
Company.
Section 8. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive
Delivery.
All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this
Agreement or the applicable Terms Agreement, or contained in certificates of
officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in
full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement, or
investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any controlling person,
or by or on behalf of the Company and shall survive delivery of and payment for
the Underwritten Securities to the Underwriters.
Section 9. Termination of Agreement.
(a) This Agreement (excluding the applicable Terms Agreement) may be
terminated for any reason at any time by the Company or by you upon the giving
of 30 days' written notice of such termination to the other party hereto;
provided that this Agreement may not be terminated prior to the Closing Time set
forth in any applicable Terms Agreement.
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(b) You may also terminate the applicable Terms Agreement, by notice to
the Company, at any time at or prior to the Closing Time (i) if there has been,
since the date of such Terms Agreement or since the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Prospectus, any material adverse change in the
condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or
business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one
enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii)
if there has occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in
the United States or any outbreak of hostilities or other calamity or crisis or
escalation of any existing hostilities, the effect of which is such as to make
it, in your judgment, impracticable to market the Underwritten Securities or
enforce contracts for the sale of the Underwritten Securities, or (iii) if
trading in any of the securities of the Company has been suspended by the
Commission or the New York Stock Exchange, or if trading generally on either the
New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange has been suspended, or
minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for
prices for securities have been required, by either of said exchanges or by
order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, or if a banking
moratorium has been declared by Federal, New York or Virginia authorities, or
(iv) if Preferred Stock is being offered and the rating assigned by any
nationally recognized statistical rating organization to any preferred stock or
debt of the Company as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement shall have
been lowered since such date or if any such rating organization shall have
publicly announced that it has placed any preferred stock or debt of the Company
on what is commonly termed a "watch list" for possible downgrading. As used in
this Section 9(b), the term "Prospectus" means the Prospectus in the form first
used to confirm sales of the Underwritten Securities.
(c) In the event of any such termination, (x) the covenants set forth
in Section 3 with respect to any offering of Underwritten Securities shall
remain in effect so long as any Underwriter owns any such Underwritten
Securities purchased from the Company pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement
and (y) the covenant set forth in Section 3(h) hereof, the provisions of Section
4 hereof, the indemnity and contribution agreements set forth in Sections 6 and
7 hereof, and the provisions of Sections 8 and 13 hereof shall remain in effect.
Section 10. Default by One or More of the Underwriters.
If one or more of the Underwriters shall fail at the Closing Time to
purchase the Underwritten Securities which it or they are obligated to purchase
under the applicable Terms Agreement (the "Defaulted Securities"), then you
shall have the right, within 48 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, you
shall not have completed such arrangements within such 48-hour period, then:
(a) if the total number of Defaulted Securities does not exceed 10% of
the total number of Underwritten Securities to be purchased pursuant to such
Terms Agreement, the non-defaulting Underwriters named in such Terms Agreement
shall be obligated 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
(b) if the total number of Defaulted Securities exceeds 10% of the
total number of Underwritten Securities to be purchased pursuant to such Terms
Agreement, the applicable Terms Agreement 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 under this Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement.
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In the event of any such default which does not result in a termination
of the applicable Terms Agreement, either you or the Company shall have the
right to postpone the Closing Time for a period not exceeding seven days in
order to effect any required changes in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements.
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 c/o
Wheat First Securities, Inc., Riverfront Plaza, West Tower, 901 East Byrd
Street, 4th Floor, Richmond, Virginia 23219, attention of Syndicate; and notices
to the Company shall be directed to it at 10 South Sixth Street, Richmond,
Virginia 23219, attention of James Dolphin, Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer.
Section 12. Parties.
This Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and be binding upon you and the Company and any Underwriter who
becomes a party to such Terms Agreement, and their respective successors.
Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement or the applicable Terms
Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or
corporation, other than those 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 such Terms Agreement or any provision herein
or therein contained. This Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement and all
conditions and provisions hereof and thereof are intended to be for the sole and
exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and thereto and their respective
successors and said controlling persons and officers and directors and their
heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or
corporation. No purchaser of Underwritten Securities from any Underwriter shall
be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.
Section 13. Governing Law.
This Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to
agreements made and to be performed in said State.
Section 14. Counterparts.
This Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement may be executed in
one or more counterparts, and if executed in more than one counterpart the
executed counterparts shall constitute a single instrument.
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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
between you and the Company in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours,
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
By: __________________________________
Name:_________________________________
Title:________________________________
CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED, as
of the date first above
written:
WHEAT FIRST SECURITIES, INC.
By:__________________________________
Name:________________________________
Title:_______________________________
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Exhibit A
_______ Shares
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(a Virginia corporation)
[Title of Securities]
TERMS AGREEMENT
Dated: _____________, 199__
To: United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.
10 South 6th Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attention: President and Chief Executive Officer
Dear Sirs:
We (the "Representative[s]") understand that United Dominion Realty
Trust, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell
the number of its [shares of common stock (the "Common Stock")] [shares of
preferred stock (the "Preferred Stock")] (such [Common Stock]) [Preferred Stock]
being collectively hereinafter [also] referred to as the "Underwritten
Securities"). Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by
reference herein, the underwriters named below (the "Underwriters") offer to
purchase, severally and not jointly, the respective numbers of [Initial
Underwritten Securities (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement referred to
below)] set forth below opposite their respective names, and a proportionate
share of Option Securities (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement referred to
below) to the extent any are purchased, at the purchase price set forth below.
Number of Shares of
Underwriter Initial Underwritten Securities
Total: $
The Underwritten Securities shall have the following terms:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
[Common Stock] [Preferred Stock]
<S> <C>
Title of Securities:
Number of Shares:
[Current Ratings:]
[Dividend Rate:] $________ (_____%), Payable:
[Stated Value:]
[Liquidation Preference:]
[Ranking:]
Public Offering Price Per Share: $_____[, plus accumulated dividends, if any, from ______, 19__.]
Purchase Price Per Share: $_____[, plus accumulated dividends, if any, from ______, 19__.]
[Conversion Provisions:]
[Redemption Provisions:]
[Sinking Fund Requirements:]
Number of Option Securities, if any
that may be purchased by the
Underwriters:
Delayed Delivery Contracts: [authorized] [not authorized]
[Date of Delivery:
Minimum Contract:
Maximum Number of Shares:
Fee:]
Additional co-managers, if any:
Other terms:
Closing time, date and location:
</TABLE>
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All the provisions contained in the document attached as Annex A hereto
entitled "United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.- Common Stock and Preferred
Stock-Underwriting Agreement" are hereby incorporated by reference in their
entirety herein and shall be deemed to be a part of this Terms Agreement to the
same extent as if such provisions had been set forth in full herein. Terms
defined in such document are used herein as therein defined.
Please accept this offer no later than _________ o'clock P.M. (New York
time) on by signing a copy of this Terms Agreement in the space set forth below
and returning the signed copy to us.
Very truly yours,
[NAME[S] OF REPRESENTATIVE]
By:____________________________
Acting on behalf of [itself]
themselves] and the other named
Underwriters.
Accepted:
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
By:___________________________________
Name:_________________________________
Title: _______________________________
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Exhibit B
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(a Virginia corporation)
[Title of Securities]
DELAYED DELIVERY CONTRACT
_____________, 19__
United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.
10 South 6th Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attention: President and Chief Executive Officer
Dear Sirs:
The undersigned hereby agrees to purchase from United Dominion Realty
Trust, Inc. (the "Company"), and the Company agrees to sell to the undersigned
on __________, 19__ (the "Delivery Date"), ____________ shares of the Company's
[insert title of security] (the "Securities"), offered by the Company's
Prospectus dated __________, 19__, as supplemented by its Prospectus Supplement
dated ___________, 19__, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, at a purchase
price of [$__________], on the Delivery Date, and on the further terms and
conditions set forth in this contract.
Payment for the Securities which the undersigned has agreed to purchase
on the Delivery Date shall be made to the Company or its order by certified or
official bank check in New York Clearing House funds at the office of , on the
Delivery Date, upon delivery to the undersigned of the Securities to be
purchased by the undersigned in definitive form and in such denominations and
registered in such names as the undersigned may designate by written or
telegraphic communication addressed to the Company not less than five full
business days prior to the Delivery Date.
The obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of and make
payment for Securities on the Delivery Date shall be subject only to the
conditions that (1) the purchase of Securities to be made by the undersigned
shall not on the Delivery Date be prohibited under the laws of the jurisdiction
to which the undersigned is subject and (2) the Company, on or before
__________, 199_, shall have sold to the Underwriters of the Securities (the
"Underwriters") such principal amount of the Securities as is to be sold to them
pursuant to the Terms Agreement dated __________, 199_ between the Company and
the Underwriters. The obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of and make
payment for Securities shall not be affected by the failure of any purchaser to
take delivery of and make payments for Securities pursuant to other contracts
similar to this contract. The undersigned represents and warrants to you that
its investment in the Securities is not, as of the date hereof, prohibited under
the laws of any jurisdiction to which the undersigned is subject and which
govern such investment.
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Promptly after completion of the sale to the Underwriters, the Company
will mail or deliver to the undersigned at its address set forth below notice to
such effect, accompanied by a copy of the opinion of counsel for the Company
delivered to the Underwriters in connection therewith.
By the execution hereof, the undersigned represents and warrants to the
Company that all necessary action for the due execution and delivery of this
contract and the payment for and purchase of the Securities has been taken by it
and no further authorization or approval of any governmental or other regulatory
authority is required for such execution, delivery, payment or purchase, and
that, upon acceptance hereof by the Company and mailing or delivery of a copy as
provided below, this contract will constitute a valid and binding agreement of
the undersigned in accordance with its terms.
This contract will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the
parties hereto and their respective successors, but will not be assignable by
either party hereto without the written consent of the other.
It is understood that the Company will not accept Delayed Delivery
Contracts for a number of Securities in excess of ________ and that the
acceptance of any Delayed Delivery Contract is in the Company's sole discretion
and, without limiting the foregoing, need not be on a first-come, first-served
basis. If this contract is acceptable to the Company, it is requested that the
Company sign the form of acceptance on a copy hereof and mail or deliver a
signed copy hereof to the undersigned at its address set forth below. This will
become a binding contract between the Company and the undersigned when such copy
is so mailed or delivered.
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This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York.
Yours very truly,
--------------------------
(Name of Purchaser)
By:_______________________
(Title)___________________
(Address)_________________
__________________________
Accepted as of the date first above written.
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
By:___________________________
(Title) ________________________
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PURCHASER-PLEASE COMPLETE AT TIME OF SIGNING
The name and telephone number of the representative of the Purchaser
with whom details of delivery on the Delivery Date may be discussed are as
follows: (Please print.)
Name: _____________________________
Telephone No. _______________________
(area code)
SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT
WITH RESPECT TO
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT
OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
OF
UNITED DOMINION REALTY, L.P.
THIS SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT made as of the 16th day of April, 1998,
between United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "General
Partner"), and United Dominion Realty, L.P., a Virginia limited partnership (the
"OP"), recites and provides as follows:
RECITALS
OP was created and exists pursuant to a Second Amended and Restated
Agreement of Limited Partnership dated August 30, 1997 (the "Partnership
Agreement"), between the General Partner and the limited partners listed on
Exhibit A to the Partnership Agreement. General Partner is the sole general
partner of the OP. The purpose of this Agreement is to reflect the General
Partner's agreement, for the benefit of all current OP limited partners, persons
becoming OP limited partners concurrently with the execution and delivery of
this Agreement and all persons who may hereafter become OP limited partners
(collectively, the "Limited Partners"), to subordinate its right to receive cash
distributions from the OP to the Limited Partners' rights to receive cash
distributions from the OP. Terms used herein and not defined are defined in the
Partnership Agreement.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the mutual promises
of the parties hereto, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
1. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.02(a) of
the Partnership Agreement, the General Partner shall not receive any cash
distributions with respect to a quarter (or other distribution period) unless
and until the Limited Partners have received cash distributions per Partnership
Unit for that quarter (or other distribution period) that equal the cash
distributions per REIT Share for that quarter (or other distribution period).
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2. This Agreement is made for the benefit of the Limited Partners, all
or any of whom may maintain an action hereon as provided in Section 55-22 of the
Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
executed as of the date first written above.
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
By:__________________________
Name:________________________
Its:_________________________
UNITED DOMINION REALTY, L.P.
By: UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST,
INC., General Partner
By:__________________________
Name:________________________
Its:_________________________
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Quarterly Report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.
(registrant)
Date: May 15, 1998
James Dolphin
Executive Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer and Chief
Accounting Officer
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EXHIBIT 12
Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Stock Dividends
(Dollars in thousands)
<CAPTION>
Three Months ended March 31,
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1998 1997
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<S> <C>
Net income $17,183 $17,113
Add:
Portion of rents representative
of the interest factor 113 89
Interest on indebtedness 22,825 19,150
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Earnings $40,121 $36,352
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Fixed charges and preferred stock dividend:
Interest on indebtedness $22,825 $19,150
Capitalized interest 536 508
Portion of rents representative
of the interest factor 113 89
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Fixed charges 23,474 19,747
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Add:
Preferred stock dividend 5,650 2,428
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Combined fixed charges and preferred stock dividend $29,124 $22,175
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Ratio of earnings to fixed charges 1.71x 1.84x
Ratio of earnings to combined fixed charges
and preferred stock dividend 1.38 1.64
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<TABLE> <S> <C>
<ARTICLE> 5
<S> <C>
<PERIOD-TYPE> 3-MOS
<FISCAL-YEAR-END> MAR-31-1998
<PERIOD-END> MAR-31-1998
<CASH> 5,961
<SECURITIES> 0
<RECEIVABLES> 0
<ALLOWANCES> 0
<INVENTORY> 0
<CURRENT-ASSETS> 109,881
<PP&E> 2,834,407
<DEPRECIATION> 214,945
<TOTAL-ASSETS> 2,735,304
<CURRENT-LIABILITIES> 92,353
<BONDS> 1,400,117
0
255,000
<COMMON> 100,701
<OTHER-SE> 849,618
<TOTAL-LIABILITY-AND-EQUITY> 2,735,304
<SALES> 104,249
<TOTAL-REVENUES> 105,261
<CGS> 0
<TOTAL-COSTS> 41,021
<OTHER-EXPENSES> 23,837
<LOSS-PROVISION> 0
<INTEREST-EXPENSE> 22,825
<INCOME-PRETAX> 17,183
<INCOME-TAX> 0
<INCOME-CONTINUING> 17,183
<DISCONTINUED> 0
<EXTRAORDINARY> 0
<CHANGES> 0
<NET-INCOME> 17,183
<EPS-PRIMARY> .13
<EPS-DILUTED> .13
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