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 Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 12, 2012

 

KITE REALTY GROUP TRUST

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Maryland

 

1-32268

 

11-3715772

(State or other jurisdiction

 

(Commission

 

(IRS Employer

of incorporation)

 

File Number)

 

Identification Number)

 

30 S. Meridian Street

 

 

Suite 1100

 

 

Indianapolis, IN

 

46204

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

(317) 577-5600

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

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)

 

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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

On March 12, 2012, Kite Realty Group Trust (the “ Company ”), as the sole general partner of Kite Realty Group, L.P., the Company’s operating partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), executed Amendment No. 2 to the Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Kite Realty Group, L.P. (the “ Amendment ”).  The Amendment designated and authorized the issue of up to an additional 1,190,000 of the Operating Partnership’s 8.250% Series A Preferred Partnership Units, with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per Series A Preferred Partnership Unit (the “ Series A Preferred Units ”), to the Company as the general partner of the Operating Partnership.  The Series A Preferred Units have economic terms that are substantially similar to the Company’s 8.250% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (liquidation preference $25.00 per share, par value $0.01 per share) (the “ Series A Preferred Shares ”).  As disclosed in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 9, 2012, the Company and the Operating Partnership entered into an underwriting agreement on March 7, 2012 with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representative of the several underwriters named therein (the “ Underwriters ”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to offer and sell 1,200,000 Series A Preferred Shares in an underwritten public offering (the “ Series A Preferred Share Offering ”) and pursuant to which the Company granted to the Underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 180,000 Series A Preferred Shares.

 

The additional Series A Preferred Units will rank, with respect to rights to receive distributions and to participate in distributions or payments upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Operating Partnership , senior to the common units of limited partnership interest of the Company, on parity with any other partnership units of the Operating Partnership the terms of which place them on parity with the Series A Preferred Units, and junior to all partnership units of the Operating Partnership the terms of which specifically provide that such partnership units rank senior to the Series A Preferred Units.

 

A copy of the Amendment is attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated herein by reference.  The summary set forth above is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibit 10.1.

 

Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

 

On March 9, 2012, the Company filed Articles Supplementary with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation classifying and designating an additional 1,190,000 shares of the Company’s authorized but unissued preferred shares as Series A Preferred Shares.  The Articles Supplementary became effective on March 12, 2012. As set forth in the Articles Supplementary, the additional Series A Preferred Shares have the same preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends and other distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption as the 2,800,000 Series A Preferred Shares initially issued by the Company in an underwritten public offering in December 2010.  A copy of the Articles Supplementary establishing the additional Series A Preferred Shares is filed as Exhibit 3.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)  Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

3.1

 

Articles Supplementary establishing additional shares of Kite Realty Group Trust’s

 

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8.250% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares, liquidation preference $25.00 per share, par value $0.01 per share

 

 

 

10.1

 

Amendment No. 2 to Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Kite Realty Group, L.P.

 

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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.

 

 

 

KITE REALTY GROUP TRUST

 

 

March 12, 2012

/s/ Daniel R. Sink

 

Daniel R. Sink

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

3.1

 

Articles Supplementary establishing additional shares of Kite Realty Group Trust’s 8.250% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares, liquidation preference $25.00 per share, par value $0.01 per share

 

 

 

10.1

 

Amendment No. 2 to Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Kite Realty Group, L.P.

 

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Exhibit 3.1

 

KITE REALTY GROUP TRUST

 

ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTABLISHING ADDITIONAL SHARES OF 8.250% SERIES A CUMULATIVE REDEEMABLE PERPETUAL PREFERRED SHARES

 

Kite Realty Group Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Trust”), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland (the “SDAT”) that:

 

FIRST : Under the authority contained in the Articles of Amendment and Restatement of Declaration of Trust of the Trust (the “Declaration of Trust”), and pursuant to authority vested by the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”) in a pricing committee of the Board at a meeting of the Board held on November 2, 2010, such pricing committee, by resolution approved at a meeting held on November 30, 2010, previously classified and designated 2,990,000 Preferred Shares (as defined in the Declaration of Trust), par value $0.01 per share, as 8.250% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the “Series A Preferred Shares”), having the preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications, and terms and conditions of redemption as set forth in the “Articles Supplementary Establishing and Fixing the Rights and Preferences of a Series of Preferred Shares” filed by the Trust with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland on December 6, 2010, effective December 7, 2010 (the “Series A Articles Supplementary”).

 

SECOND : Under the authority contained in the Declaration of Trust and pursuant to authority vested by the Board in the Pricing Committee of the Board (the “Pricing Committee”) by unanimous written consent of the Board, dated March 5, 2012, the Pricing Committee, by resolution approved at a meeting held on March 7, 2012, classified an additional 1,190,000 shares of Preferred Shares as Series A Preferred Shares, par value $0.01 per share, having the preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications, and terms and conditions of redemption as set forth in the Series A Articles Supplementary, with the result that the Trust shall now have authorized an aggregate of 4,180,000 Series A Preferred Shares, all of which shall constitute a single series of Preferred Shares.

 

THIRD : The additional shares of Series A Preferred Shares have been classified and designated Series A Preferred Shares by the Pricing Committee under the authority granted by the Board pursuant to the powers of the Board as contained in the Declaration of Trust. These Articles Supplementary have been approved by the Pricing Committee in accordance with the power delegated to the Pricing Committee by the Board in the manner and by the vote required by law.

 

FOURTH : These Articles Supplementary shall become effective at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern Time) on March 12, 2012.

 

FIFTH : The undersigned Chief Financial Officer of the Trust acknowledges these Articles Supplementary to be the corporate act of the Trust and, as to all matters or facts required to be verified under oath, the undersigned Chief Financial Officer of the Trust acknowledges that

 

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to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, these matters and facts are true in all material respects and that this statement is made under the penalties for perjury.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trust has caused these Articles Supplementary to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its Chief Financial Officer and attested to by its Secretary on this 9th day of March, 2012.

 

 

Kite Realty Group Trust

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel R. Sink

 

 

Daniel R. Sink

 

 

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

ATTEST:

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Thomas R. Olinger

 

 

Thomas R. Olinger

 

 

Senior Vice President and Secretary

 

 


Exhibit 10.1

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2
TO
AMENDED AND RESTATED
AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
OF
KITE REALTY GROUP, L.P.

 

This Amendment No. 2 to the Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Kite Realty Group, L.P. (this “ Amendment ”) is made as of March 12, 2012 by Kite Realty Group Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust, as sole general partner (the “ Company ”) of Kite Realty Group, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “ Partnership ”), pursuant to the authority granted to the Company in the Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Kite Realty Group, L.P., dated as of August 16, 2004 (the “ Partnership Agreement ”), for the purpose of issuing additional Partnership Units in the form of Series A Preferred Partnership Units. Capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Partnership Agreement.

 

WHEREAS, a Pricing Committee of the Board of Trustees (the “ Board ”) of the Company adopted resolutions on November 30, 2010 classifying and designating 2,990,000 Preferred Shares (as defined in the Articles of Amendment and Restatement of Declaration of Trust of the Company (the “ Declaration of Trust ”) as Series A Preferred Shares;

 

WHEREAS, the Company filed Articles Supplementary to the Declaration of Trust with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland, effective on December 7, 2010 (the “ Original Articles Supplementary ”), establishing the Series A Preferred Shares, with such preferences, rights, powers, restrictions, limitations as to distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption as described in the Original Articles Supplementary, and classifying and establishing 2,990,000 preferred shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per share, of the Company as Series A Preferred Shares;

 

WHEREAS, on December 7, 2010, the Company amended the Partnership Agreement to create Partnership Units in the form of Series A Preferred Partnership Units having designations, preferences and other rights which are substantially the same as the economic rights of the Series A Preferred Shares, and classifying and designating 2,990,000 Partnership Units as Series A Preferred Partnership Units;

 

WHEREAS, on December 7, 2010, the Company issued 2,600,000 Series A Preferred Shares, and on December 28, 2010, the Company issued an additional 200,000 Series A Preferred Shares (in connection with the partial exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option);

 

WHEREAS, a Pricing Committee of the Board, by resolution approved at a meeting held on March 7, 2012, classified and designated an additional 1,190,000 Preferred Shares (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) as Series A Preferred Shares;

 

WHEREAS, on March 9, 2012, the Company filed Articles Supplementary to the Declaration of Trust with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland, effective on March 12, 2012, classifying and establishing an additional 1,190,000 Preferred Shares as Series A Preferred Shares;

 

WHEREAS, on March 12, 2012, the Company issued 1,300,000 additional Series A Preferred Shares and, as of the date hereof, the Company is authorized to issue an additional 80,000 Series A Preferred Shares; and, pursuant to Article IV of the Partnership Agreement, the Company will contribute the proceeds of the issuance and sale of such Series A Preferred Shares to the Partnership in exchange for an equal number of Series A Preferred Partnership Units; and

 

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WHEREAS, the Company has determined that, in connection with the issuance of the additional Series A Preferred Shares, it is necessary and desirable to amend the Partnership Agreement to classify and designate additional Partnership Units as Series A Preferred Partnership Units.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which hereby are acknowledged, the Partnership Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

 

1.             Exhibit F to the Partnership Agreement is hereby amended by deleting Section A thereof and replacing such Section with the following new Section A:

 

“A.          Designation and Number .  A series of Preferred Partnership Units, designated as Series A Preferred Partnership Units, is hereby established. The number of Series A Preferred Partnership Units shall be 4,180,000.”

 

2.             In accordance with Section 4.2 of the Partnership Agreement, set forth in Exhibit F, as amended hereby, are the terms and conditions of the additional Series A Preferred Partnership Units hereby established and issued to the Company in consideration of its contribution to the Partnership of the proceeds of the issuance and sale of the additional shares of Series A Preferred Shares by the Company. The Partnership Agreement is amended to replace Exhibit A thereto with a revised Exhibit A to reflect the issuance of the additional Series A Preferred Partnership Units.

 

3.             Except as modified herein, all terms and conditions of the Partnership Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, which terms and conditions the Company hereby ratifies and confirms.

 

4.             This Amendment shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflicts of law.

 

5.             If any provision of this Amendment is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected thereby.

 

[Signature Page to Amendment No. 2 to the Amended and Restated Agreement

of Limited Partnership of Kite Realty Group, L.P., follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Amendment as of the date first set forth above.

 

 

KITE REALTY GROUP TRUST
As sole general partner of Kite Realty Group, L.P.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel R. Sink

 

 

Daniel R. Sink

 

 

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

[Signature Page to Amendment No. 2 to the Amended and Restated Agreement

of Limited Partnership of Kite Realty Group, L.P.]