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) April 22, 2005 (April 18, 2005)

 

CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Maryland

 

1-14023

 

23-2947217

(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation)

 

(Commission
File Number)

 

(IRS Employer
Identification Number)

 

8815 Centre Park Drive, Suite 400
  Columbia, Maryland 21045  
(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(410) 730-9092
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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 Instruction A.2 below):

 

o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 


 

Item 1.01                                              Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

On April 18, 2005, Corporate Office Properties Trust (the “Registrant”), the General Partner of Corporate Office Properties, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”), entered into the Eighteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement (as so amended, the “Partnership Agreement”) of Corporate Office Properties, L.P.  The Amendment was entered into in connection with the issuance by the Operating Partnership to ten unrelated entities on April 18, 2005 of an aggregate of 142,776 common units in the Operating Partnership valued at $3.7 million in connection with the contribution by such entities of properties to the Operating Partnership.  Other than to reflect the admission of such entities into the Operating Partnership, the Amendment contains no substantive terms.

 

Item 9.01                                              Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(a)                                   Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired

 

None

 

(b)                                  Pro Forma Financial Information

 

None

 

(c)                                   Exhibits

 

Exhibit Number

 

Exhibit Title

10.1

 

Eighteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of Corporate Office Properties, L.P., dated April 18, 2005.

 

SIGNATURES

 

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.

 

Date:  April 22, 2005

 

 

CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Randall M. Griffin

 

 

Name:

Randall M. Griffin

 

Title:

 President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Roger A. Waesche, Jr.

 

 

Name:

Roger A. Waesche, Jr.

 

Title:

 Executive Vice President and Chief
 Financial Officer

 

2


 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number

 

Exhibit Title

10.1

 

Eighteenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of Corporate Office Properties, L.P., dated April 18, 2005.

 

3

Exhibit 10.1

 

EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
TO
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
OF
CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES, L.P.

 

THIS EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT (this “Amendment”) to the Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of Corporate Office Properties, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”) is made and entered into as of April 18, 2005, by the undersigned.

 

Recitals

 

A.                                    The Partnership is a limited partnership organized under the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act and governed by that certain Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement dated as of December 7, 1999, as amended to the date hereof (as amended, the “Partnership Agreement”).

 

B.                                      The sole general partner of the Partnership is Corporate Office Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust formed under the laws of the State of Maryland (the “General Partner”).

 

C.                                      Pursuant to Section 11.1(b)(iii), the General Partner desires to amend the Partnership Agreement to reflect the admission, substitution, termination and/or withdrawal of various limited partners in accordance with the terms of the Partnership Agreement.

 

NOW THEREFORE, the General Partner, intending to be legally bound, hereby amends the Partnership Agreement as follows, effective as of the date set forth above.

 

1.                                        Exhibit 1, Schedule of Partners, as attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof, is hereby substituted for and intended to replace any prior Exhibit 1 attached to a prior Amendment to the Partnership Agreement, and as attached hereto shall be a full and complete listing of all the general and limited partners of the Partnership as of the date of this Amendment, the same being intended and hereby superceding all prior Exhibit 1 listings.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the General Partner has executed this Amendment as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST, a
Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Roger A. Waesche, Jr.

 

 

Name: Roger A. Waesche, Jr.

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 


 

Exhibit 1

 

Schedule of Partners

 

 

 

Common Units of
Partnership Units

 

Series E
Preferred
Units

 

Series F
Preferred
Units

 

Series G
Preferred
Units

 

Series H
Preferred
Units

 

Series I
Preferred
Units

 

General Partner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate Office Properties Trust

 

34,979,382

 

1,150,000

 

1,425,000

 

2,200,000

 

2,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Limited Partners and Preferred Limited Partners

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jay H. Shidler

 

452,878

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shidler Equities, L.P.

 

2,995,439

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clay W. Hamlin, III

 

566,492

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LBCW Limited Partnership

 

3,031,107

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert L. Denton

 

414,910

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James K. Davis

 

51,589

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John E. De B. Blockey, Trustee of the John E. de B. Blockey Living Trust dated 9/12/88

 

300,625

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frederick K. Ito Trust

 

29,140

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June Y. I. Ito Trust

 

29,135

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RP Investments, LLC

 

150,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denise J. Liszewski

 

28,333

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samuel Tang

 

4,389

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lawrence J. Taff

 

13,733

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kimberly F. Aquino

 

2,937

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M.O.R. XXIX Associates Limited Partnership

 

148,381

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M.O.R. 44 Gateway Associates Limited Partnership

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Parsinen

 

90,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M.O.R. Commons Limited Partnership

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Edward De Burgh Blockey and Sanda Juanita Blockey

 

10,476

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anthony Muscatello

 

90,905

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lynn Hamlin

 

121,411

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baldwin School

 

200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

National Prostate Cancer Coalition

 

400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Episcopal Academy

 

250

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Pennsylvania, Friends of Penn Tennis

 

400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Housing Affiliates, Inc.

 

4,402

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reingle Corp.

 

730

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph Tawil

 

2,160

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lovejoy Trust

 

59,528

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Century Trust

 

59,528

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A. Charles Wilson & Betty S. Wilson Trust

 

5,908

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harold & Renee Holland

 

4,320

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irwin Hoffman

 

1,880

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl & Dolores Wright Revocable Trust

 

2,160

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rouse 1988 Trust

 

2,160

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRC Associates Limited Partnership

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

352,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

43,655,296

 

1,150,000

 

1,425,000

 

2,200,000

 

2,000,000

 

352,000