UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
Washington, D.C.  20549
 

FORM 8-K

 
CURRENT REPORT
 
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):  October 14, 2010
 

CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
 
Delaware
 
1-12494
 
62-1545718
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
         
Suite 500, 2030 Hamilton Place Blvd., Chattanooga, TN 37421
(Address of principal executive office, including zip code)
         
(423) 855-0001
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
         
N/A
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

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  Item 1.01
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On October 14, 2010, CBL & Associates Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership which is the operating partnership (the “Operating Partnership”) of CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (the “Company”), supplemented its Third Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, as amended to date, with a Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designation of 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units, relating to the preferred units of limited partnership in the Operating Partnership (the “Series D Preferred Units”) underlying shares of the Company’s 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value per share, with a liquidation preference of $250.00 per share (the “Series D Preferred Stock”).  The Operating Partnership issued 440,000 of the Series D Preferred Units, the terms of which parallel the terms of the Series D Preferred Stock, to a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company in conjunction with the closing of the transaction described in Item 3.03 of this report.

  Item 3.03
Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

On October 18, 2010, the Company completed an underwritten public offering of 4,400,000 depositary shares, each representing 1/10 th of a share of its Series D Preferred Stock at a liquidation preference of $25.00 per depositary share, pursuant to the underwriting agreement filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 8-K dated October 13, 2010.  The Company has granted the underwriters of the offering a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 660,000 depositary shares to cover over-allotments, if any.  The terms of the Series D Preferred Stock were established in a Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designations (“Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designations”) filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on October 14, 2010.  A copy of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designations is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.9.2.

Under the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designations, holders of the depositary shares and the underlying Series D Preferred Stock are entitled to receive cumulative dividends, in equal priority with the holders of the Company’s other outstanding series of preferred stock and before any dividends are paid to the common stockholders, at the rate per share of 7.375% of the stated liquidation preference per annum, payable quarterly in arrears.  Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the affairs of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Company legally available for distribution to stockholders, in equal priority with the holders of the Company’s other outstanding series of preferred stock, an amount equal to the stated liquidation preference per share, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon to the date of payment, before any distribution or payment shall be made to the holders of any junior securities, including the common stock.

  Item 7.01
Regulation FD Disclosure.

The Company’s Press Release concerning the October 18, 2010 completion of an underwritten public offering of 4,400,000 depositary shares, each representing 1/10 th of a share of its 7.375% Series D Preferred Stock, is furnished as an exhibit to this report.
 
 
 

 

  Item 9.01
Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
(a)  
Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired

 
Not applicable

(b)  
Pro Forma Financial Information

 
Not applicable
 
(c)
Shell Company Transactions
 
 
Not applicable
 
(d)  
Exhibits
 

 
Exhibit
Number
 
Description
     4.9.2
Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designations, dated October 14, 2010, relating to the Company’s 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock
     10.1.4
Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designation, dated October 14, 2010, of 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units
     99.1
Press Release – CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. Announces Closing of $102.1 Million Preferred Stock Offering




 
 

 

SIGNATURE



Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES, INC.
 
/s/ Andrew F. Cobb
Andrew F. Cobb
Vice President and Director
of Accounting

Date: October 18, 2010


EXHIBIT 4.9.2

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS, NUMBER,
VOTING POWERS, PREFERENCES AND RIGHTS
OF
7.375% SERIES D CUMULATIVE REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK
OF
CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES, INC.

Pursuant to Section 151 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

The undersigned DOES HEREBY CERTIFY that the following resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Directors of CBL & Associates Properties, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation”), with the preferences and rights set forth therein relating to dividends, conversion, redemption, dissolution and distribution of assets of the Corporation having been fixed by the Board of Directors pursuant to authority granted to it under Article IV of the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), and in accordance with the provisions of Section 151 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware:

RESOLVED:  That, pursuant to authority conferred upon the Board of Directors by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, the Board of Directors hereby authorizes the issuance of an additional 400,000 shares of 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, $.01 par value, of the Corporation, for an amended and restated total of 2,200,000 shares of such stock authorized for issuance, and hereby fixes the designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of such shares, in addition to those set forth in such Certificate of Incorporation, as follows:

1.  
Designation and Amount .

The shares of such series shall be designated 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock” (the “Series D Preferred Stock”) and the number of shares constituting such series shall be 2,200,000.  The designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be subject in all cases to the provisions of Article IV of the Certificate of Incorporation regarding limitations on beneficial and constructive ownership of the Corporation’s capital stock.

2.  
Dividends and Distribution Rights .

(a) Holders of Series D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”), out of assets of the Corporation legally available for the payment of dividends, cumulative preferential cash dividends at the rate of 7.375% per annum of the $250.00 liquidation preference.  Such dividends
 
 
 

 
shall be cumulative from and including the date of the original issue by the Corporation of shares of Series D Preferred Stock and shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the 30th day of March, June, September, and December of each year or, if not a business day, the next succeeding business day (each, a “Dividend Payment Date”).  The first dividend shall be paid on March 30, 2005.  Such first dividend and any dividend payable on the Series D Preferred Stock for any other partial dividend period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.  Dividends will be payable to holders of record as they appear in the stockholder records of the Corporation at the close of business on the applicable record date, which shall be the 15th day of the calendar month in which the applicable Dividend Payment Date falls or on such other date designated by the Board of Directors for the payment of dividends that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Dividend Payment Date (each, a “Dividend Record Date”).

(b) No dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock shall be declared by the Board of Directors or paid or set apart for payment by the Corporation at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Corporation, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibits such declaration, payment or setting apart for payment or provides that such declaration, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such declaration or payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law.

(c) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock shall accrue whether or not the Corporation has earnings, whether or not there are funds legally available for the payment of such dividends, and whether or not such dividends are declared.  Accrued but unpaid dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock shall accumulate as of the Dividend Payment Date on which they first become payable.

(d) Except as set forth in the next sentence, no dividends shall be declared or paid or set apart for payment on any shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock, $.01 par value (“Common Stock”), or shares of any other class or series of capital stock of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends, on a parity with or junior to the Series D Preferred Stock (other than a dividend paid in shares of Common Stock or in shares of any other class or series of capital stock ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Stock as to dividends and upon liquidation) for any period unless full cumulative dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock for all past dividend periods and the then current dividend period shall have been or contemporaneously are (i) declared and paid in cash or (ii) declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof in cash is set apart for such payment.  When dividends are not paid in full (or a sum sufficient for such full payment is not so set apart) upon the Series D Preferred Stock and the shares of any other series of preferred stock ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series D Preferred Stock, all dividends declared upon the Series D Preferred Stock and any other series of preferred stock ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series D Preferred Stock shall be declared pro rata so that the amount of dividends declared per share of Series D Preferred Stock and such other series of preferred stock shall in all cases bear to each other the same ratio that accrued dividends per share on the Series D Preferred Stock and such other series of preferred stock (which shall not include any accrual in respect of unpaid dividends on such other series of preferred stock for prior dividend periods if such other series of preferred stock does not have a cumulative dividend) bear to each other.  No interest, or sum of money in lieu of interest, shall be payable in
 
 
 

 
respect of any dividend payment or payments on the Series D Preferred Stock which may be in arrears.

(e) Except as provided in paragraph 2(d), unless full cumulative dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid in cash or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof in cash is set apart for payment for all past dividend periods and the then current dividend period, no dividends (other than in Common Stock or other capital stock ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Stock as to dividends and upon liquidation) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other dividend shall be declared or made upon the Common Stock or any other capital stock of the Corporation ranking junior to or on parity with the Series D Preferred Stock as to dividends or amounts upon liquidation nor shall any shares of Common Stock, or any other shares of capital stock of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series D Preferred Stock as to dividends or upon liquidation, be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of any such shares) by the Corporation (except by conversion into or exchange for other shares of capital stock of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Stock as to dividends and upon liquidation and except for the acquisition of shares that have been designated as “Shares-in-Trust” in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Incorporation).

(f) Holders of shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to any dividend, whether payable in cash, property or shares of stock, in excess of full cumulative dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock as provided above.  Any dividend payment made on the Series D Preferred Stock shall first be credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividends due with respect to such shares which remains payable.

3.  
Liquidation Rights .

Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the affairs of the Corporation, the holders of shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to its stockholders a liquidation preference of $250.00 per share, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid dividends to the date of payment (whether or not declared), before any distribution or payment shall be made to holders of shares of Common Stock or any other class or series of capital stock of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Stock as to liquidation rights.  In the event that, upon such voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, the available assets of the Corporation are insufficient to pay the amount of the liquidating distributions on all outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock and the corresponding amounts payable on all shares of other classes or series of capital stock of the Corporation ranking on a parity with the Series D Preferred Stock in the distribution of assets, then the holders of the Series D Preferred Stock and all other such classes or series of shares of capital stock shall share ratably in any such distribution of assets in proportion to the full liquidating distributions to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled.  Holders of Series D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to written notice of any such liquidation.  After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions to which they are entitled, the holders of Series D Preferred Stock will have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Corporation.  
 
 
 

 
The consolidation or merger of the Corporation with or into any other corporation, trust or entity, or of any other corporation, trust or other entity with or into the Corporation, or the sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Corporation shall not be deemed to constitute a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation.

4.  
Redemption .
 
(a) Shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable prior to December 13, 2009; provided, however, that the Corporation may, prior to such date and in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Incorporation, purchase shares of Series D Preferred Stock designated as “Shares-In-Trust” thereunder.  On or after December 13, 2009, the Corporation, at its option upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ written notice, may redeem the Series D Preferred Stock, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, for cash at a redemption price of $250.00 per share, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon up to and including the date fixed for redemption (except as provided below), without interest.  If fewer than all of the outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock are to be redeemed, the shares of Series D Preferred Stock to be redeemed shall be redeemed pro rata (as nearly as may be practicable without creating fractional shares) or by lot or by any other equitable method determined by the Corporation.  Holders of Series D Preferred Stock to be redeemed shall surrender such Series D Preferred Stock at the place designated in such notice and shall be entitled to the redemption price and any accrued and unpaid dividends payable upon such redemption following such surrender.  If notice of redemption of any Series D Preferred Stock has been given and if the funds necessary for such redemption have been set aside by the Corporation in trust for the benefit of the holders of any shares of Series D Preferred Stock so called for redemption, then from and after the redemption date dividends shall cease to accrue on such Series D Preferred Stock, such shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall no longer be deemed outstanding and all rights of the holders of such shares will terminate, except the right to receive the redemption price plus any accrued and unpaid dividends payable upon such redemption.  Nothing herein shall prevent or restrict the Corporation’s right or ability to purchase, from time to time either at a public or a private sale, all, or any portion, of the outstanding Series D Preferred Stock at such price or prices as the Corporation may determine, subject to the provisions of applicable law.
 
(b) Unless full cumulative dividends on all Series D Preferred Stock shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid in cash or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof in cash set apart for payment for all past dividend periods and the then current dividend period, no Series D Preferred Stock shall be redeemed unless all outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock are simultaneously redeemed and the Corporation shall not purchase or otherwise acquire directly or indirectly any shares of Series D Preferred Stock (except by exchange for shares of capital stock of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Stock as to dividends and amounts upon liquidation); provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prevent the purchase by the Corporation in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Incorporation of shares of the Corporation designated as “Shares-in-Trust” thereunder or the purchase or acquisition of Series D Preferred Stock pursuant to a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to holders of all outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock.
 
(c) Notice of redemption shall be mailed by the Corporation, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date, addressed to the respective
 
 
 

 
holders of record of the shares of Series D Preferred Stock to be redeemed at their respective addresses as they appear on the share transfer records of the Corporation.  No failure to give such notice or any defect thereto or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Series D Preferred Stock except as to a holder to whom notice was defective or not given.  Each notice shall state (i) the redemption date; (ii) the redemption price; (iii) the number of shares of Series D Preferred Stock to be redeemed; (iv) the place or places where certificates for shares of Series D Preferred Stock are to be surrendered for payment of the redemption price; and (v) that dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock to be redeemed shall cease to accrue on such redemption date.  If fewer than all of the shares of Series D Preferred Stock held by any holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of shares of Series D Preferred Stock held by such holder to be redeemed.
 
(d) Immediately prior to any redemption of Series D Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall pay, in cash, any accumulated and unpaid dividends through the redemption date, unless a redemption date falls after a Dividend Record Date and prior to the corresponding Dividend Payment Date, in which case each holder of Series D Preferred at the close of business on such Dividend Record Date shall be entitled to the dividend payable on such shares on the corresponding Dividend Payment Date notwithstanding the redemption of such shares before such Dividend Payment Date.  Except as provided above, the Corporation shall make no payment or allowance for unpaid dividends, whether or not in arrears, on Series D Preferred Stock for which a notice of redemption has been given.

(e) All shares of the Series D Preferred Stock redeemed or repurchased pursuant to this paragraph 4 shall be retired and shall be restored to the status of authorized and unissued shares of preferred stock, without designation as to series and may thereafter be reissued as shares of any series of preferred stock.

(f) The Series D Preferred Stock shall have no stated maturity and shall not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption; provided, however, that the Series D Preferred Stock owned by a stockholder in excess of the Ownership Limit (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) shall be subject to the provisions of Article IV of the Certificate of Incorporation.

5.  
Voting Rights .
 
(a) Holders of the Series D Preferred Stock shall not have any voting rights, except as provided by applicable law and as set forth in this paragraph 5.

(b) Whenever dividends on any shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall be in arrears for six or more consecutive or non-consecutive quarterly periods (a “Preferred Dividend Default”), the holders of such Series D Preferred Stock (voting together as a class with the holders of all other classes or series of equity securities of the Corporation ranking on parity with the Series D Preferred Stock upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable (“Parity Preferred”)) shall be entitled at the next annual meeting of stockholders to elect two additional directors to the Board of Directors (the “Preferred Directors”).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, prior to the election of Preferred Directors in the manner described in this paragraph, all accumulated dividends are paid on the Series D Preferred Stock
 
 
 

 
and all other classes or series of Parity Preferred upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable, no Preferred Directors shall be so elected.  Any Preferred Directors so elected will serve until all unpaid cumulative dividends have been paid or declared and set apart for payment.  Upon such election, the size of the Board of Directors will be increased by two directors.  If and when all such accumulated dividends shall have been paid on the Series D Preferred Stock and all other classes or series of Parity Preferred upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable, the term of office of each Preferred Director so elected will terminate and the size of the Board of Directors will be reduced accordingly.  So long as a Preferred Dividend Default shall continue, any vacancy in the office of a Preferred Director may be filled by written consent of the Preferred Director remaining in office, or if none remains in office, by a vote of the holders of record of a majority of the outstanding Series D Preferred Stock when they have the voting rights described above (voting together as a class with the holders of all other classes or series of Parity Preferred).  Each of the Preferred Directors shall be entitled to one vote on any matter.

(c) The affirmative vote or consent of the holders of two-thirds of the shares of Series D Preferred Stock and each other class or series of Parity Preferred outstanding at the time (voting together as a class), given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting, will be required to:  (i) authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of capital stock ranking senior to the Series D Preferred Stock with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation or reclassify any authorized shares of the Corporation into such capital stock, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such capital stock; or (ii) amend, alter or repeal the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or this Certificate of Designations, whether by merger, consolidation, transfer or conveyance of substantially all of its assets or otherwise (an “Event”), so as to materially and adversely affect any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series D Preferred Stock or the holders thereof; provided however, with respect to the occurrence of any of the Events set forth in (ii) above, so long as the Series D Preferred Stock remains outstanding with the terms thereof materially unchanged, taking into account that, upon the occurrence of an Event, the Corporation may not be the surviving entity, the occurrence of such Event shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting power of holders of Series D Preferred Stock and in such case such holders shall not have any voting rights with respect to the Events set forth in (ii) above.  Except as may be required by law, holders of Series D Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to vote with respect to (A) any increase or decrease in the total number of authorized shares of common stock or preferred stock, (B) any increase, decrease or issuance of any series of capital stock including the Series D Preferred Stock or (C) the creation or issuance of any other series of capital stock, in each case referred to in clauses (A), (B) or (C) above, ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series D Preferred Stock with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up.

(d) The foregoing voting provisions of this paragraph 5 shall not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which such vote would otherwise be required shall be effected, all outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall have been redeemed or
 
 
 

 
called for redemption upon proper notice and sufficient funds, in cash, shall have been deposited in trust to effect such redemption.

(e) In any matter in which the Series D Preferred Stock may vote (as expressly provided herein or as may be required by law), each share of Series D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to one vote per each $25.00 in liquidation preference.

6.  
Conversion .

The shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall not be convertible into or exchangeable for any other property or securities of the Corporation.

7.  
Ranking .

The Series D Preferred Stock shall, with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, rank (a) senior to the Common Stock and to all equity securities ranking junior to such Series D Preferred Stock; (b) on a parity with all equity securities issued by the Corporation the terms of which specifically provide that such equity securities rank on a parity with the Series D Preferred Stock; and (c) junior to all equity securities issued by the Corporation (in accordance with this Certificate of Designations) the terms of which specifically provide that such equity securities rank senior to the Series D Preferred Stock.  For purposes of this paragraph 7, the term “equity securities” does not include convertible debt securities .

8.  
Exclusion of Other Rights .

The Series D Preferred Stock shall not have any preferences or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption other than as expressly set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation and this Certificate of Designations.

9.  
Headings of Subdivisions .

The headings of the various subdivisions hereof are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of any of the provisions hereof.

10.  
Severability of Provisions .

If any preferences or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption of the Series D Preferred Stock set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation and this Certificate of Designations is invalid, unlawful or incapable of being enforced by reason of any rule of law or public policy, all other preferences or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption of Series D Preferred Stock set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation which can be given effect without the invalid, unlawful or unenforceable provision thereof shall, nevertheless, remain in full force and effect and no preferences or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other
 
 
 

 
distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption of the Series D Preferred Stock herein set forth shall be deemed dependent upon any other provision thereof unless so expressed therein.

11.  
No Preemptive Rights .

No holder of Series D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to any preemptive rights to subscribe for or acquire any unissued shares of capital stock of the Corporation (whether now or hereafter authorized) or securities of the Corporation convertible into or carrying a right to subscribe to or acquire shares of capital stock of the Corporation.
 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. has caused this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designations, Number, Voting Powers, Preferences and Rights of 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock to be duly executed by its Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer this  14th day of October, 2010.

  CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.  
       
 
By:
/s/  John N. Foy  
    John N. Foy   
   
Vice Chairman of the Board
and Chief Financial Officer
 

EXHIBIT 10.1.4


SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
OF
7.375% SERIES D CUMULATIVE REDEEMABLE PREFERRED UNITS
OF
CBL & ASSOCIATES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

Pursuant to Article 4.4 of the
Third Amended and Restated Partnership Agreement of
CBL & Associates Limited Partnership

WHEREAS, CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (the “Company”) previously issued, in December 2004, 700,000 shares (the “2004 Offering”) of 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”); and
 
WHEREAS, the Company previously issued, in March 2010, an additional 630,000 shares (the “March 2010 Offering”) of the Preferred Stock; and
 
WHEREAS, the Company has committed to issue, in October 2010, an additional 440,000 shares (the “October 2010 Offering”) of the Preferred Stock; and
 
WHEREAS, the Company previously contributed the net proceeds of the 2004 Offering and the March 2010 Offering to CBL & Associates Limited Partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), and the Company and the Operating Partnership now desire that the Company contribute net proceeds of the October 2010 Offering to the Operating Partnership, in each case in exchange for preferred units having substantially the same economic rights and terms as the Preferred Stock;
 
WHEREAS, Article 4.4 of the Third Amended and Restated Partnership Agreement of the Operating Partnership (the “Partnership Agreement”) provides for a Preferred Unit Designation, setting forth, in sufficient detail, the economic rights and terms of the class or series of preferred units.
 
NOW THEREFORE, CBL Holdings I, Inc., the general partner of the Operating Partnership (the “General Partner”) hereby amends and restates in full, as so amended, the designated terms of a series of preferred units, with the designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of such preferred units, being hereby fixed as follows:
 
1.            Designation and Amount .

The units of such series shall be designated “7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units” (the “Series D Preferred Units”) and the number of units constituting such series shall be 2,200,000.  The designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions
 
 
 

 
thereof, of the Series D Preferred Units shall be subject in all cases to the provisions of the Partnership Agreement.
 
2.            Dividends and Distribution Rights .

(a)  Holders of Series D Preferred Units shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the General Partner, out of assets of the Operating Partnership legally available for the payment of dividends, cumulative preferential cash dividends at the rate of 7.375% per annum of the $250.00 liquidation preference.  Such dividends shall be cumulative from and including the date of the original issue by the Operating Partnership of the Series D Preferred Units and shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the 30th day of March, June, September, and December of each year or, if not a business day, the next succeeding business day (each, a “Dividend Payment Date”).  The first dividend shall be paid on March 30, 2005.  Such first dividend and any dividend payable on the Series D Preferred Units for any other partial dividend period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.  Dividends will be payable to holders of record as they appear in the records of the Operating Partnership at the close of business on the applicable record date, which shall be the 15th day of the calendar month in which the applicable Dividend Payment Date falls or on such other date designated by the General Partner for the payment of dividends that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Dividend Payment Date (each, a “Dividend Record Date”).
 
(b)  No dividends on the Series D Preferred Units shall be declared by the General Partner or paid or set apart for payment by the General Partner at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Operating Partnership, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibits such declaration, payment or setting apart for payment or provides that such declaration, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such declaration or payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law.
 
(c)  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, dividends on the Series D Preferred Units shall accrue whether or not the Operating Partnership has earnings, whether or not there are funds legally available for the payment of such dividends, and whether or not such dividends are declared.  Accrued but unpaid dividends on the Series D Preferred Units shall accumulate as of the Dividend Payment Date on which they first become payable.
 
(d)  Except as set forth in the next sentence, no dividends shall be declared or paid or set apart for payment on any of the Operating Partnership’s Common Units (“Common Units”), or units of any other class or series of units of the Operating Partnership ranking, as to dividends, on a parity with or junior to the Series D Preferred Units (other than a dividend paid in units of Common Units or in units of any other class or series of units ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Units as to dividends and upon liquidation) for any period unless full cumulative dividends on the Series D Preferred Units for all past dividend periods and the then current dividend period shall have been or contemporaneously are (i) declared and paid in cash or (ii) declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof in cash is set apart for such payment.  When dividends are not paid in full (or a sum sufficient for such full payment is not so set apart) upon the Series D Preferred Units and the units of any other series of preferred units ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series D Preferred Units, all dividends declared upon the Series D Preferred Units and any other series of preferred units ranking on a parity as to dividends with
 
 
 

 
the Series D Preferred Units shall be declared pro rata so that the amount of dividends declared per unit of Series D Preferred Units and such other series of preferred units shall in all cases bear to each other the same ratio that accrued dividends per unit on the Series D Preferred Units and such other series of preferred units (which shall not include any accrual in respect of unpaid dividends on such other series of preferred units for prior dividend periods if such other series of preferred units does not have a cumulative dividend) bear to each other.  No interest, or sum of money in lieu of interest, shall be payable in respect of any dividend payment or payments on the Series D Preferred Units which may be in arrears.
 
(e)  Except as provided in paragraph 2(d), unless full cumulative dividends on the Series D Preferred Units shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid in cash or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof in cash is set apart for payment for all past dividend periods and the then current dividend period, no dividends (other than in Common Units or other units ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Units as to dividends and upon liquidation) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other dividend shall be declared or made upon the Common Units or any other units of the Operating Partnership ranking junior to or on parity with the Series D Preferred Units as to dividends or amounts upon liquidation nor shall any units of Common Units, or any units of any other class or series of units of the Operating Partnership ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series D Preferred Units as to dividends or upon liquidation, be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of any such units) by the Operating Partnership (except by conversion into or exchange for other units of the Operating Partnership ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Units as to dividends and upon liquidation).  Nothing in the foregoing shall be deemed to preclude the exercise of Rights (as defined in the Partnership Agreement) by any unit holder in accordance with the Partnership Agreement.
 
(f)  Holders of Series D Preferred Units shall not be entitled to any dividend, whether payable in cash, property or units, in excess of full cumulative dividends on the Series D Preferred Units as provided above.  Any dividend payment made on the Series D Preferred Units shall first be credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividends due with respect to such units which remains payable.
 
3.            Liquidation Rights .

Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the affairs of the Operating Partnership, the holders of units of Series D Preferred Units shall be entitled to be paid out of the assets of the Operating Partnership legally available for distribution to its Unit holders a liquidation preference of $250.00 per unit, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid dividends to the date of payment (whether or not declared), before any distribution or payment shall be made to holders of units of Common Units or any other class or series of units of the Operating Partnership ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Units as to liquidation rights.  In the event that, upon such voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, the available assets of the Operating Partnership are insufficient to pay the amount of the liquidating distributions on all outstanding units of Series D Preferred Units and the corresponding amounts payable on all units of other classes or series of units of the Operating Partnership ranking on a parity with the Series D Preferred Units in the distribution of assets,
 
 
 

 
then the holders of the Series D Preferred Units and all other such classes or series of units shall share ratably in any such distribution of assets in proportion to the full liquidating distributions to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled.  Holders of Series D Preferred Units shall be entitled to written notice of any such liquidation.  After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions to which they are entitled, the holders of Series D Preferred Units will have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Operating Partnership.  The consolidation or merger of the Operating Partnership with or into any corporation, trust or entity, or of any corporation, trust or other entity with or into the Operating Partnership, or the sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Operating Partnership shall not be deemed to constitute a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Operating Partnership.
 
4.            Redemption .

(a)  Series D Preferred Units shall not be redeemable prior to December 13, 2009.  On or after December 13, 2009, the Operating Partnership, at its option upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ written notice, may redeem the Series D Preferred Units, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, for cash at a redemption price of $250.00 per unit, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon up to and including the date fixed for redemption (except as provided below), without interest.  If fewer than all of the outstanding units of Series D Preferred Units are to be redeemed, the units of Series D Preferred Units to be redeemed shall be redeemed pro rata (as nearly as may be practicable without creating fractional units) or by lot or by any other equitable method determined by the Operating Partnership.  Holders of Series D Preferred Units to be redeemed shall surrender such Series D Preferred Units at the place designated in such notice and shall be entitled to the redemption price and any accrued and unpaid dividends payable upon such redemption following such surrender.  If notice of redemption of any Series D Preferred Units has been given and if the funds necessary for such redemption have been set aside by the Operating Partnership in trust for the benefit of the holders of any units of Series D Preferred Units so called for redemption, then from and after the redemption date dividends shall cease to accrue on such Series D Preferred Units, such units of Series D Preferred Units shall no longer be deemed outstanding and all rights of the holders of such units will terminate, except the right to receive the redemption price plus any accrued and unpaid dividends payable upon such redemption Nothing herein shall prevent or restrict the Operating Partnership’s right or ability to purchase, from time to time either at a public or a private sale, all, or any portion, of the outstanding Series D Preferred Units at such price or prices as the Operating Partnership may determine, subject to the provisions of applicable law.
 
(b)  Unless full cumulative dividends on all Series D Preferred Units shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid in cash or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof in cash set apart for payment for all past dividend periods and the then current dividend period, no Series D Preferred Units shall be redeemed unless all outstanding units of Series D Preferred Units are simultaneously redeemed and the Operating Partnership shall not purchase or otherwise acquire directly or indirectly any units of Series D Preferred Units (except by exchange for units of the Operating Partnership ranking junior to the Series D Preferred Units as to dividends and amounts upon liquidation).
 
 
 

 
(c)  Notice of redemption shall be mailed by the Operating Partnership, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date, addressed to the respective holders of record of the units of Series D Preferred Units to be redeemed at their respective addresses as they appear on the records of the Operating Partnership.  No failure to give such notice or any defect thereto or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Series D Preferred Units except as to a holder to whom notice was defective or not given.  Each notice shall state (i) the redemption date; (ii) the redemption price; (iii) the number of units of Series D Preferred Units to be redeemed; (iv) the place or places where units of Series D Preferred Units are to be surrendered for payment of the redemption price; and (v) that dividends on the Series D Preferred Units to be redeemed shall cease to accrue on such redemption date.  If fewer than all of the units of Series D Preferred Units held by any holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of units of Series D Preferred Units held by such holder to be redeemed.
 
(d)  Immediately prior to any redemption of Series D Preferred Units, the Operating Partnership shall pay, in cash, any accumulated and unpaid dividends through the redemption date, unless a redemption date falls after a Dividend Record Date and prior to the corresponding Dividend Payment Date, in which case each holder of Series D Preferred Units at the close of business on such Dividend Record Date shall be entitled to the dividend payable on such units on the corresponding Dividend Payment Date notwithstanding the redemption of such units before such Dividend Payment Date.  Except as provided above, the Operating Partnership shall make no payment or allowance for unpaid dividends, whether or not in arrears, on Series D Preferred Units for which a notice of redemption has been given.
 
(e)  All Series D Preferred Units redeemed or repurchased pursuant to this paragraph 4 shall be retired and shall be restored to the status of authorized and unissued units of preferred units, without designation as to Series D and may thereafter be reissued as units of any series of preferred units.
 
(f)  The Series D Preferred Units shall have no stated maturity and shall not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption.
 
5.            Voting Rights .

(a)  Holders of the Series D Preferred Units shall not have any voting rights, except as set forth in the Partnership Agreement.
 
(b)  The affirmative vote or consent of the holders of two-thirds of the units of Series D Preferred Units and the holders of all other classes or series of Preferred Units of the Operating Partnership ranking on parity with the Series D Preferred Units upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable, outstanding at the time (voting together as a class), given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting, will be required to: (i) authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of units ranking senior to the Series D Preferred Units with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Operating Partnership or reclassify any authorized units of the Operating Partnership into such units, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such
 
 
 

 
units; or (ii) amend, alter or repeal the provisions of the Partnership Agreement or this Certificate of Designations, whether by merger, consolidation, transfer or conveyance of substantially all of its assets or otherwise (an “Event”), so as to materially and adversely affect any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series D Preferred Units or the holders thereof; provided however, with respect to the occurrence of any of the Events set forth in (ii) above, so long as the Series D Preferred Units remain outstanding with the terms thereof materially unchanged, taking into account that, upon the occurrence of an Event, the Operating Partnership may not be the surviving entity, the occurrence of such Event shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting power of holders of Series D Preferred Units and in such case such holders shall not have any voting rights with respect to the Events set forth in (ii) above.  Except as may be required by law, holders of Series D Preferred Units shall not be entitled to vote with respect to (A) any increase or decrease in the total number of authorized Preferred Units, (B) any increase, decrease or issuance of any series of Preferred Units including the Series D Preferred Units or (C) the creation or issuance of any other series of Preferred Units, in each case referred to in clauses (A), (B) or (C) above, ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series D Preferred Units with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up.
 
(c)  The foregoing voting provisions of this paragraph 5 shall not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which such vote would otherwise be required shall be effected, all outstanding units of Series D Preferred Units shall have been redeemed or called for redemption upon proper notice and sufficient funds, in cash, shall have been deposited in trust to effect such redemption.
 
(d)  In any matter in which the Series D Preferred Units may vote (as expressly provided herein or as may be required by law), each unit of Series D Preferred Units shall be entitled to one vote per each $25.00 in stated liquidation preference.
 
6.            Conversion .

The units of Series D Preferred Units shall not be convertible into or exchangeable for any other property or units of the Operating Partnership.
 
7.            Ranking .

The Series D Preferred Units shall, with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Operating Partnership, rank (a) senior to the Common Units and to all units ranking junior to such Series D Preferred Units; (b) on a parity with all units issued by the Operating Partnership the terms of which specifically provide that such units rank on a parity with the Series D Preferred Units; and (c) junior to all units issued by the Operating Partnership (in accordance with this Certificate of Designations) the terms of which specifically provide that such units rank senior to the Series D Preferred Units. For purposes of this paragraph 7, the term “units” does not include indebtedness convertible into units.
 

 
 
 

 

8.            Exclusion of Other Rights .

The Series D Preferred Units shall not have any preferences or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption other than as expressly set forth in the Partnership Agreement and this Certificate of Designations.
 
9.            Headings of Subdivisions .

The headings of the various subdivisions hereof are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of any of the provisions hereof.
 
10.            Severability of Provisions .

If any preferences or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption of the Series D Preferred Units set forth in the Partnership Agreement and this Certificate of Designations is invalid, unlawful or incapable of being enforced by reason of any rule of law or public policy, all other preferences or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption of Series D Preferred Units set forth in the Partnership Agreement which can be given effect without the invalid, unlawful or unenforceable provision thereof shall, nevertheless, remain in full force and effect and no preferences or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other distributions, qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption of the Series D Preferred Units herein set forth shall be deemed dependent upon any other provision thereof unless so expressed therein.
 
11.            No Preemptive Rights .

No holder of Series D Preferred Units shall be entitled to any preemptive rights to subscribe for or acquire any unissued units of the Operating Partnership (whether now or hereafter authorized) or securities of the Operating Partnership convertible into or carrying a right to subscribe to or acquire units of the Operating Partnership.
 


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, CBL Holdings I, Inc. has caused this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Designation of 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units to be duly executed by its Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer this 14th day of October, 2010.

  CBL Holdings I, Inc.  
       
 
By:
/s/  John N. Foy  
    John N. Foy  
   
Vice Chairman of the Board
and Chief Financial Officer
 


EXHIBIT 99.1
Investor Contact:  Katie Reinsmidt, Vice President - Corporate Communications and Investor Relations, 423.490.8301, katie_reinsmidt@cblproperties.com


CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES INC. ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF
$102.1 MILLION PREFERRED STOCK OFFERING
 
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (October 18, 2010) – CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (NYSE: CBL) announced today that it has closed an underwritten public offering of 4,400,000 depositary shares, each representing 1/10th of a share of its 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per depositary share.  The Company has granted the underwriters of the offering a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 660,000 depositary shares to cover over-allotments, if any.  Including the shares issued in this offering (without giving effect to any exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional depositary shares), the Company now has 17,700,000 depositary shares outstanding, each representing 1/10th of a share of its 7.375% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock. The securities are redeemable, in whole or in part, for $25.00 per depositary share, plus accrued and unpaid dividends, at any time at the option of the Company. These securities have no stated maturity, sinking fund or mandatory redemption and are not convertible into any other securities of the Company.
 
The depositary shares were priced at $23.1954 per share including accrued dividends equating to a yield of 7.949%. The Company intends to use the estimated net offering proceeds of $98.6 million to reduce outstanding borrowings under its credit facilities and for general corporate purposes.
 
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC served as the sole book-running manager of the offering.
 
This offering was made pursuant to an effective registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.
 
The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement. Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to these securities, may be obtained from Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd., NC0675, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262, Attn: Syndicate Operations, 1-800-326-5897, email: prospectus.specialrequests@wachovia.com .
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About CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.
CBL is one of the largest and most active owners and developers of malls and shopping centers in the United States. CBL owns, holds interests in or manages 159 properties, including 84 regional malls/open-air centers. The properties are located in 28 states and total 85.6 million square feet including 2.8 million square feet of non-owned shopping centers managed for third parties. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, CBL has regional offices in Boston (Waltham), MA, Dallas (Irving), TX, and St. Louis, MO.

Information included herein contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws.  Such statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which cannot be predicted with accuracy and some of which might not even be anticipated.  Future events and actual events, financial and otherwise, may differ materially from the events and results discussed in the forward-looking statements.  The reader is directed to the Company's various filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and the sections therein captioned “Risk Factors” and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" therein, for a discussion of such risks and uncertainties.

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