UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
December 16, 2010
VORNADO REALTY TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
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No. 001-11954 |
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No. 22-1657560 |
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VORNADO REALTY L.P.
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No. 000-22635 |
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No. 13-3925979 |
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888 Seventh Avenue
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Former name or former address, if changed since last report: N/A
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instructions A.2.):
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
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Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
On December 16, 2010, Vornado Realty L.P. (the Operating Partnership), the operating partnership through which Vornado Realty Trust conducts its business, entered into an agreement to acquire its partners interest in the partnership that owns the Springfield Mall (the Interests) in exchange for $25 million aggregate amount of Series D-16 Preferred Units of the Operating Partnership (the Preferred Units), which have a distribution rate of 5% per annum. On December 17, 2010, the Operating Partnership issued the Preferred Units in exchange for the Interests. The Preferred Units were issued in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to Section 4(2) thereof.
Item 5.03. Amendment to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On December 17, 2010, the Operating Partnerships agreement of limited partnership was amended to provide for the issuance of the Preferred Units referred to in Item 3.02 above and the admission of the holders of such Units as limited partners of the Operating Partnership. A copy of the amendment is filed as exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 . Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
99.1 Forty-Second Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, dated as of
December 17, 2010.
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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.
VORNADO REALTY TRUST |
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/s/ Joseph Macnow |
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Joseph Macnow |
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Date: December 21, 2010
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.
VORNADO REALTY L.P. |
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VORNADO REALTY TRUST, |
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Sole General Partner |
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/s/ Joseph Macnow |
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Joseph Macnow |
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Date: December 21, 2010
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Exhibit Index
99.1 Forty-Second
Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited
Partnership, dated as of
December 17,
2010.
Exhibit 99.1
FORTY-SECOND
AMENDMENT
TO
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
OF
VORNADO REALTY L.P.
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Dated as of December 17, 2010
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THIS FORTY-SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OF VORNADO REALTY L.P. (this Amendment ), dated as of December 17, 2010, is hereby adopted by Vornado Realty Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (defined in the Agreement, hereinafter defined, as the General Partner ), as the general partner of Vornado Realty L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the Partnership). For ease of reference, capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the meanings assigned to them in the Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P. dated as of October 20, 1997, as amended by the Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of December 16, 1997, and further amended by the Second Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of April 1, 1998, the Third Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of November 12, 1998, the Fourth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of November 30, 1998, the Fifth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of March 3, 1999, the Sixth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of March 17, 1999, the Seventh Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of May 20, 1999, the Eighth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of May 27, 1999, the Ninth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of September 3, 1999, the Tenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of September 3, 1999, the Eleventh Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of November 24, 1999, the Twelfth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty
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L.P., dated as of May 1, 2000, the Thirteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of May 25, 2000, the Fourteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of December 8, 2000, the Fifteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of December 15, 2000, the Sixteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of July 25, 2001, the Seventeenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of September 21, 2001, the Eighteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of January 1, 2002, the Nineteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of July 1, 2002, the Twentieth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of April 9, 2003, the Twenty-First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of July 31, 2003, the Twenty-Second Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of November 17, 2003, the Twenty-Third Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of May 27, 2004, the Twenty‑Fourth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of August 17, 2004, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of November 17, 2004, the Twenty‑Sixth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of December 17, 2004, the Twenty-Seventh Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of December 20, 2004, the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of December 30, 2004, the Twenty-Ninth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of June 17, 2005, the Thirtieth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of August 31, 2005, the Thirty-First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of September 9, 2005, the Thirty-Second Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of December 19, 2005, the Thirty-Third Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of April 25, 2006, the Thirty-Fourth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of May 2, 2006, the Thirty-Fifth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of August 17, 2006, the Thirty-Sixth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of January 22, 2007, the Thirty-Seventh Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of June 27, 2007, the Thirty-Eighth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of June 27, 2007, the Thirty-Ninth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of June 27, 2007, the Fortieth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of June 27, 2007, and the Forty-First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Vornado Realty L.P., dated as of March 31, 2008, (as so amended, the Agreement ).
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WHEREAS, the General Partner desires to establish and set forth the terms of a new series of Partnership Interests designated as Series D-16 Preferred Units (the Series D-16 Preferred Units ) to amend the Agreement to accomplish the same;
WHEREAS, the Partnership entered into a Contribution Agreement with the Persons identified on Schedule 1 attached hereto (collectively, the Initial Series D-16 Purchasers ), and with Meshulam Riklis, an individual, pursuant to which the Partnership agreed to issue Series D-16 Preferred Units to the Initial Series D-16 Purchasers from time to time in accordance with and subject to the terms thereof and hereof;
WHEREAS, the General Partner has determined that it is in the best interest of the Partnership to amend the Agreement to establish the Series D-16 Preferred Units and set forth the terms thereof to reflect the issuance of the above-referenced Series D-16 Preferred Units;
WHEREAS, Section 14.1.B of the Agreement grants the General Partner power and authority to amend the Agreement without the consent of any of the Partnerships limited partners if the amendment does not adversely affect or eliminate any right granted to a limited partner pursuant to any of the provisions of the Agreement specified in Section 14.1.C or Section 14.1.D of the Agreement as requiring a particular minimum vote; and
WHEREAS, the General Partner has determined that the amendment effected hereby does not adversely affect or eliminate any of the limited partner rights specified in Section 14.1.C or Section 14.1.D of the Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, the General Partner hereby amends the Agreement as follows:
1. Exhibit AN , attached hereto as Attachment 1 , is hereby incorporated by reference into the Agreement and made a part thereof.
2. Section 4.2 of the Agreement is hereby supplemented by adding the following paragraph to the end thereof:
AN. Issuance of Series D-16 Preferred Units . From and after the date hereof the Partnership shall be authorized to issue Partnership Units of a new series, which Partnership Units are hereby designated as Series D-16 Preferred Units. Series D-16 Preferred Units shall have the terms set forth in Exhibit AN attached hereto and made part hereof.
3. In making distributions pursuant to Section 5.1(B) of the Agreement, the General Partner of the Partnership shall take into account the provisions of Paragraph 2 of Exhibit AN to the Agreement, including, but not limited to, Paragraph 2.G(ii) thereof.
4. The Agreement is hereby supplemented by adding the following paragraph at the end of Section 8.6 thereof:
AN. Series D-16 Preferred Unit Exception . Holders of Series D-16 Preferred Units shall not be entitled to the Redemption Right provided for in Section 8.6.A of this Agreement.
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5. Exhibit A of the Agreement is hereby deleted and is replaced in its entirety by new Exhibit A attached hereto as Attachment 2.
6. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the General Partner has executed this Amendment as of the date first written above.
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Schedule 1
INITIAL SERIES D-16 PURCHASERS
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Attachment 1
EXHIBIT AN
DESIGNATION OF THE PREFERENCES, CONVERSION
AND OTHER RIGHTS, VOTING POWERS, RESTRICTIONS,
LIMITATIONS AS TO DISTRIBUTIONS, QUALIFICATIONS AND TERMS
AND CONDITIONS OF REDEMPTION
OF THE
SERIES D-16 PREFERRED UNITS
In addition to those terms defined in the Agreement, the following definitions shall be for all purposes, unless otherwise clearly indicated to the contrary, applied to the terms used in the Agreement and this Exhibit AN :
Annual Distribution Rate shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.B(i) hereof.
Change in Control shall mean (i) a consolidation or merger of the Partnership or the General Partner with one or more entities, (ii) a statutory share exchange by the Partnership or the General Partner, (iii) a sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the Partnerships or the General Partners assets and (iv) the Continuing Trustees cease to be at least a majority of the board of trustees of the General Partner.
Common Shares shall mean the common shares of beneficial interest of the General Partner, par value $.04 per share.
Continuing Trustee means as of the date of any determination, a member of the General Partners board of trustees who either was a member of the General Partners board of trustees on the date of this Amendment or was nominated for election or appointed or elected to the General Partners board of trustees with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Trustees who were member of the General Partners board of trustees at the time of such new trustees nomination, appointment or election, either by a specific vote or by approval of the proxy statement issued by the General Partner on behalf of the board of trustees, in which such individual is named as nominee for trustee.
Contribution Agreement shall mean the Contribution Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2010, by and among Franconia Associates, a Virginia general partnership, the Partnership and Meshulam Riklis, an individual.
Distribution Payment Date shall mean the first calendar day of January, April, July and October, in each year, commencing on April 1, 2007; provided , however , that if any Distribution Payment Date falls on any day other than a Unit Business Day, the distribution payment due on such Distribution Payment Date shall be paid on the first Unit Business Day immediately following such Distribution Payment Date.
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Distribution Periods shall mean quarterly distribution periods commencing on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year and ending on and including the day preceding the first day of the next succeeding Distribution Period (other than the initial Distribution Period with respect to each Series D-16 Preferred Unit, which shall commence on the date on which such Series D-16 Preferred Unit was issued by the Partnership and end on and include the day preceding the first day of the next succeeding Distribution Period).
Institutional Lender shall mean a bank, trust company, insurance company, investment banking firm, an affiliate of any of the foregoing, pension fund, eleemosynary institution, union welfare or pension fund, a trust created to hold multiple commercial mortgage loans, or other organization that is regularly engaged in the financing of commercial properties so long as such entity or organization is unaffiliated with the Partnership.
Permitted Redemption Date shall mean the Protection Date (as defined in the Contribution Agreement).
Debt-Financed Distribution shall mean a distribution, made in accordance with and subject to the terms of Section 2.4 of the Contribution Agreement, by the Partnership to the holder of a Series D-16 Preferred Unit of cash derived from and attributable to a borrowing by the Partnership.
Redemption Date shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.D(ii) hereof.
Redemption Price shall mean, with respect to each Series D-16 Preferred Unit as of any date of redemption, an amount in U.S. dollars equal to (x) twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) less (y) the aggregate amount of Debt-Financed Distributions previously made in respect of such Series D-16 Preferred Unit.
Series D-16 Notice of Redemption shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.E(i)(a) hereof.
Series D-16 Preferred Unit means a Partnership Unit issued by the Partnership having the preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption as are set forth in this Exhibit AN .
Series D-16 Redeeming Partner shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.E(i)(a) hereof.
Series D-16 Redemption Right shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.E(i)(a) hereof.
Series D-16 Specified Redemption Date shall mean the sixty-first calendar day after receipt by the General Partner of a Series D-16 Notice of Redemption in respect of the Series D-16 Units; provided , however , that the Series D-16 Specified Redemption Date shall mean the tenth Unit Business Day after receipt by the General Partner of a Series D-16 Notice of Redemption delivered in respect of a redemption described in Treas. Reg. 1.7704‑1(e).
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set apart for payment shall be deemed to include, without any action other than the following, the recording by the Partnership or the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership in its accounting ledgers of any accounting or bookkeeping entry which indicates, pursuant to a declaration of a distribution by the General Partner, the allocation of funds to be so paid on any series or class of Partnership Units; provided , however , that if any funds for any class or series of Junior Units (as defined below) or any Parity Units (as defined below) are placed in a separate account of the Partnership or delivered to a disbursing, paying or other similar agent, then set apart for payment with respect to the Series D-16 Preferred Units shall mean placing such funds in a separate account or delivering such funds to a disbursing, paying or other similar agent, respectively.
Unit Business Day shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which state or federally chartered banking institutions in New York, New York are not required to be open.
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Series D-16 Preferred Units and any such other Parity Units if all amounts payable thereon were paid in full. For the purposes of this Section 2.C and 2.G, (i) a consolidation or merger of the Partnership or the General Partner with one or more entities, (ii) a statutory share exchange by the Partnership or the General Partner and (iii) a sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the Partnerships or the General Partners assets, shall not be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, of the Partnership or General Partner.
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outstanding Series D-16 Preferred Units that the total number of Series D-16 Preferred Units held by such holder represents and determined as nearly as practicable without creating fractional interests) of the aggregate number of Series D-16 Preferred Units to be redeemed, (c) the place or places where such Series D-16 Preferred Units are to be surrendered for payment of the amount payable upon redemption and (d) that payment of such amount will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Series D-16 Preferred Units. If the Partnership gives a notice of redemption in respect of Series D-16 Preferred Units pursuant to this Section 2.D(ii), then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, the Partnership will deposit irrevocably in trust for the benefit of the holders of Series D-16 Preferred Units being redeemed funds sufficient to pay the applicable amount payable with respect to such Series D-16 Preferred Units and will give irrevocable instructions and authority to pay such amount to the holders of the Series D-16 Preferred Units upon surrender of the Series D-16 Preferred Units by such holders at the place designated in the notice of redemption.
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distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up, as the case may be, in preference or priority to the holders of Partnership Units of such class or series ( Junior Units ).
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accordance with Section 6.1.B(x) of the Agreement, and shall share in those allocations in a pro rata manner based on the distributions and allocations of items, as applicable, made to Preference Units; references to Preference Units in Article VI of the Agreement shall be deemed to also refer to Series D-16 Preferred Units except that references to distributions made to Preference Units shall be deemed to refer to distributions made to the Series D-16 Preferred Units in a pro rata manner with such distributions, if any, made to the Preference Units. As a result, the portion of each holders Capital Account attributable to a Series D-16 Preferred Unit will generally be allocated income equal to the cash distributed in respect of such Series D-16 Preferred Unit (and losses previously allocated to them). This allocation would occur prior to any allocation of income to Units other than Preference Units. In the event the Partnership incurs an amount of losses in excess of the aggregate amount of the Capital Accounts with respect to the Units (other than Preference Units), any additional loss would be allocated to the holders of the Series D-16 Preferred Units in accordance with Section 6.1.B(x) of the Agreement.
J. Assignees . For the avoidance of doubt, Section 11.5 of the Agreement shall apply in respect of any Assignee of Series D-16 Preferred Units. The Assignee of any Series D-16 Preferred Units may exercise the rights of a Limited Partner pursuant to Section 2.D of this Amendment and such Limited Partner shall be deemed to have assigned such rights to such Limited Partners Assignee and shall be bound by the exercise of such rights by such Limited Partners Assignee.
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